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Ref : S10728
Theme :
Testings - Satellites - Probes - Rockets (2314 images)
Title : In KSC’s Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation FacilityII (SAEFII)
Caption :
(08/13/1997) --- In KSC’s Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-II (SAEF-II), the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft is encapsulated and placed into the transporter which will move it to Launch Complex 17A. Scheduled for launch on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Station on Aug. 24, ACE will study low-energy particles of solar origin and high-energy galactic particles. The collecting power of instruments aboard ACE is 10 to 1,000 times greater than anything previously flown to collect similar data by NASA
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