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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., technicians conduct illumination tests on solar array panel #1 with its magnetometer boom for NASA's Juno spacecraft. Juno is scheduled to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Aug. 5.The solar-powered spacecraft will orbit Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere and investigate the existence of a solid planetary core. For more information visit: www.nasa.gov/juno. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller KSC-2011-3995
RBSP-A, Canister Removal, First Bag Removal, Solar Panels Unbagged and into Work Stand 2012-2648
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The crew for mission STS-121 is taking part in a Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) inside the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Looking at the trailing umbilical system reel assembly that will be installed on the International Space Station are Mission Specialists Michael Fossum (on ladder), Lisa Nowak and Stephanie Wilson (below Fossum on floor). A CEIT provides hands-on experiences with equipment used on-orbit. Mission STS-121 is the second in the Return to Flight sequence and will carry on improvements that debuted during last year's STS-114 mission and build upon those tests. Launch is scheduled in July. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-06pd0537
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the clean room high bay at the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparations are under way to remove the shipping container from around NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probe A. Applied Physics Laboratory technicians then will begin prelaunch preparations and spacecraft testing. The Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, mission will help us understand the sun’s influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the Earth’s radiation belts on various scales of space and time. RBSP instruments will provide the measurements needed to characterize and quantify the plasma processes that produce very energetic ions and relativistic electrons. The mission is part of NASA’s broader Living With a Star Program that was conceived to explore fundamental processes that operate throughout the solar system, particularly those that generate hazardous space weather effects in the vicinity of Earth and phenomena that could impact solar system exploration. RBSP will begin its mission of exploration of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts and the extremes of space weather after launch. Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled for August 23. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/rbsp. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2012-2648
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – In Orbital Sciences’ hangar on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Pegasus fairing has been secured around NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. Access to the spacecraft was needed for compatibility testing to verify communication with a tracking station in Hawaii. With the change in the launch timeframe to June, this station will be needed to support launch. After processing of Orbital’s Pegasus XL rocket and the spacecraft is complete, they will be flown on Orbital's L-1011 carrier aircraft from Vandenberg, to the U.S. Army's Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pegasus, mated to its NuSTAR payload, will be launched from the carrier aircraft 117 nautical miles south of Kwajalein at latitude 6.75 degrees north of the equator. The high-energy X-ray telescope will conduct a census of black holes, map radioactive material in young supernovae remnants, and study the origins of cosmic rays and the extreme physics around collapsed stars. Launch is scheduled for June 13. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/nustar. Photo credit: U.S. Air Force 30th Space Wing/Aaron Taubman, VAFB KSC-2012-3239
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) SPACECRAFT EVENT
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The overhead crane settles the Mars Exploration Rover 2 (MER-2) entry vehicle onto a spin table for a dry-spin test. The MER Mission consists of two identical rovers designed to cover roughly 110 yards each Martian day over various terrain. Each rover will carry five scientific instruments that will allow it to search for evidence of liquid water that may have been present in the planet's past. Identical to each other, the rovers will land at different regions of Mars. Launch for MER-2 (MER-A) is scheduled for June 5.
SMAP Spacecraft is Unpacked. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.
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THEMIS SPACECRAFT - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
THEMIS SPACECRAFT - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
THEMIS SPACECRAFT - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
THEMIS SPACECRAFT - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
THEMIS SPACECRAFT - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
THEMIS SPACECRAFT - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
THEMIS SPACECRAFT - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
THEMIS SPACECRAFT - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
THEMIS SPACECRAFT - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
THEMIS SPACECRAFT - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
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Description: NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) SPACECRAFT LOCATED IN THE SWALES AEROSPACE CLEANROOM..
Photographer: CHRIS GUNN
Date: 1/30/2006
Job Number: 2006-00591-0
Preservation Copy: .tif
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themis spacecraft
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Date
2006 - 2011
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