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Workers make final checks as the second part of the bi-sector payload fairing for the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is closed around the spacecraft at Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. ACE will be launched on a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle. The spacecraft will investigate the origin and evolution of solar phenomenon, the formation of solar corona, solar flares and acceleration of the solar wind.
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