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Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. — With the transport canister removed, NASA's CALIPSO/CloudSat spacecraft are mated to the Boeing Delta II second stage in the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2. Launch of the dual spacecraft is scheduled for April 21. CALIPSO stands for Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-06pd0597. NASA/KSC, 2006-04-08. Public domain. ID: KSC-06pd0597.
