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Ref : S10690
Theme :
Testings - Satellites - Probes - Rockets (2314 images)
Title : The second stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch the Advanced
Caption :
(08/02/1997) --- The second stage of the Delta II rocket which will to be used to launch the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft is erected at Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Station. Scheduled for launch on Aug. 25, ACE will study low-energy particles of solar origin and high-energy galactic particles. The ACE observatory will be placed into an orbit almost a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away from the Earth, about 1/100 the distance from the Earth to the Sun
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