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Réf : S12191
Thème :
Essais - Constructions - Satellites - Sondes - Fusées (2314 images)
Titre : In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility
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(11/16/1998) --- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers remove the Stardust solar panels for testing. The spacecraft Stardust will use a unique medium called aerogel to capture comet particles flying off the nucleus of comet Wild 2 in January 2004, plus collect interstellar dust for later analysis. Stardust will be launched aboard a Boeing Delta 7426 rocket from Complex 17, Cape Canaveral Air Station, targeted for Feb. 6, 1999. The collected samples will return to Earth in a re-entry capsule (seen at the top of the spacecraft in this photo) to be jettisoned from Stardust as it swings by Earth in January 2006
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