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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Secure on the back of a transport vehicle, the MESSENGER spacecraft is being transferred to a hazardous processing facility at Astrotech Space Operations where the spacecraft’s complement of hypergolic propellants will be loaded. MESSENGER is scheduled to launch Aug. 2 aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., bound for Mercury. The spacecraft is expected to reach orbit around Mercury in March 2011.
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