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SMAP Spacecraft Rotate & Placed on Fixture
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About this work
Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, engineers and technicians remove a protective covering from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, spacecraft. SMAP will launch on a Delta II 7320 configuration vehicle featuring a United Launch Alliance first stage booster powered by an Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-27A main engine and three Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, strap-on solid rocket motors.
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Credit lineSMAP Spacecraft Rotate & Placed on Fixture. NASA/KSC, 2014-10-16. Public domain. ID: KSC-314D-0464_0004.
