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KSC-2009-1682

NASA / KSC · 2009-02-18 · photograph (digital archive)

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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- On Launch Complex 576-E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, two cranes are used to lift NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, spacecraft. It will be raised to vertical and attached to the waiting Stage 0 motor of the Taurus XL launch vehicle in the tower. The OCO is attached to the upper stack, consisting of Stages 1, 2 and 3 of the Taurus. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch aboard Orbital Sciences' Taurus XL rocket Feb.

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Credit lineKSC-2009-1682. NASA/KSC, 2009-02-18. Public domain. ID: KSC-2009-1682.

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