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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – On the ramp of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft, which is mated to the Pegasus XL rocket, is attached under the wing of an Orbital Sciences’ L-1011 aircraft. The IBEX satellite will make the first map of the boundary between the Solar System and interstellar space. IBEX is targeted for launch Oct. 19.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-08pd3079. NASA/KSC, 2008-10-09. Public domain. ID: KSC-08pd3079.
