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Technicians prepare the AIM spacecraft for fairing installation

NASA / KSC · 2007-04-12 · photograph (digital archive)

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At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, under the protective clean tent, technicians examine the installation of the fairing around the AIM spacecraft. The fairing is a molded structure that fits around the spacecraft and forms an aerodynamically smooth nose cone, protecting the spacecraft during launch. Launch will be from a Pegasus XL rocket, carried and released by Orbital Sciences L-1011 jet aircraft.

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Pegasus XL rocket AIM spacecraft fairing

Credit lineTechnicians prepare the AIM spacecraft for fairing installation. NASA/KSC, 2007-04-12. Public domain. ID: KSC-07PD-0972.

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