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KSC-08pd2418

NASA / KSC · 2008-08-05 · photograph (digital archive)

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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Star-27 kick motor and nozzle for NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft are “on top” and part of the IBEX flight system, known as the adapter cone, is in the foreground/bottom. The Star-27 motor has a silver tank that contains the solid propellant. The nozzle fits down inside the adapter cone.

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Credit lineKSC-08pd2418. NASA/KSC, 2008-08-05. Public domain. ID: KSC-08pd2418.
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