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Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida the aeroshell, a component of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), has been secured onto a spin stand for testing. The aeroshell consists of the backshell which carries the parachute and several components used during later stages of entry, descent and landing, and the spacecraft's heat shield. MSL's components include a compact car-sized rover, Curiosity, which has 10 science instruments designed to search for evidence on whether Mars has had environments favorable to microbial life, including chemical ingredients for life. The unique rover will use a laser to look inside rocks and release its gasses so that the rover’s spectrometer can analyze and send the data back to Earth. Launch of MSL aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled for Nov. 25 from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller KSC-2011-4335
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) SPACECRAFT SHIPPING
LVSA AFT CONE POST 7TH WELD. NASA public domain image colelction.
Closed Aeroshell - Mars exploration rover images
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft undergoes illumination testing of its solar array panels. The Phoenix will be launched toward Mars to land in icy soils near the planet's north polar permanent ice cap. It will explore the history of the water in these soils and any associated rocks, while monitoring polar climate. Landing on Mars is planned in May 2008 on arctic ground where a mission currently in orbit, Mars Odyssey, has detected high concentrations of ice just beneath the top layer of soil. Phoenix is scheduled to launch Aug. 3 from Pad 17-A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station . Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-07pd1618
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Suspended by an overhead crane in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) aeroshell is guided by workers as it moves to a rotation stand. Set to launch in 2003, the MER Mission will consist of two identical rovers designed to cover roughly 110 yards (100 meters) each Martian day. 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. The rovers will be identical to each other, but will land at different regions of Mars. The first rover has a launch window opening May 30, and the second rover a window opening June 25, 2003. KSC-03pd0233
OA-7 Cargo Module mate to Service Module
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers prepare to lift the Mars Exploration Rover-1 (MER-B) onto a spin table during preflight processing of the spacecraft. The rover is scheduled to launch aboard a Delta II rocket on June 25. NASA’s twin Mars Exploration Rovers are designed to study the history of water on Mars. These robotic geologists are equipped with a robotic arm, a drilling tool, three spectrometers, and four pairs of cameras that allow them to have a human-like, 3D view of the terrain. Each rover could travel as far as 100 meters in one day to act as Mars scientists' eyes and hands, exploring an environment where humans are not yet able to go. The launch of MER-2 (MER-A) is tentatively set for June 8.
AIM being prepared for integrated testing and flight simulation
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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
2006
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themis
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nasa
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themis spacecraft
swales aerospace cleanroom
macroscale interactions
chris gunn
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satellite
space program
Date
2006 - 2011
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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