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KSC-01PP-0886
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Inside the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2, an overhead crane is attached to the container surrounding the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) satellite. MAP will undergo testing in the SAEF-2 before its scheduled launch June 30 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a Delta II rocket into a lunar-assisted trajectory to the Sun-Earth for a 27-month mission (3 months transit, 24 months observing).
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-01PP-0886. NASA/KSC, 2001-04-20. Public domain. ID: 01pp0886.