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JPSS-1 Spacecraft Transport to SLC-2, Lift & Mate to Delta II
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At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Joint Polar Satellite System-1, or JPSS-1, is on its way to Space Launch Complex 2 packaged in a protective container. At the pad, JPSS-1 will be lifted for mating atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. Built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, JPSS is the first in a series four next-generation environmental satellites in a collaborative program between the NOAA and NASA.
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Credit lineJPSS-1 Spacecraft Transport to SLC-2, Lift & Mate to Delta II. NASA/KSC, 2017-10-24. Public domain. ID: VAFB-20171024-PH_BEV01_0010.
