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KSC-2011-7514
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – At Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex-2 in California, preparations are under way to enclose NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft into the clamshell-shaped Delta payload fairing. The fairing will protect the spacecraft from the impact of aerodynamic pressure and heating during ascent and will be jettisoned once the spacecraft is outside the Earth's atmosphere.
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Credit lineKSC-2011-7514. NASA/KSC, 2011-10-20. Public domain. ID: 2011-7514.
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