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Delta II ICESat-2 Fairing Offload
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Delta II ICESat-2 Fairing Offload

NASA / KSC · 2018-02-22 · photograph (digital archive)

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Inside Building 836 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the payload fairing halves for the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket are lifted up from the base of their shipping container. NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is scheduled to launch on the final ULA Delta II rocket later this year. ICESat-2 will measure the height of a changing Earth, one laser pulse at a time, 10,000 laser pulses a second.

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Credit lineDelta II ICESat-2 Fairing Offload. NASA/KSC, 2018-02-22. Public domain. ID: VAFB-20180222-PH_RKB01_0048.

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