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KSC-05PD-2117
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF. — Inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, workers get ready to attach the CALIPSO spacecraft to the upper Delta Payload Attach Fitting (UDPAF). Later the UDPAF will be mated with the lower Delta Payload Attach Fitting, which contains the CloudSat satellite. The PAF is the interface between the spacecraft and the second stage of the rocket.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05PD-2117. NASA/KSC, 2005-08-30. Public domain. ID: 05pd2117.
