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Delta II ICESat-2 Solar Array First Motion Test
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Inside the high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a solar array first motion test is underway on NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) on June 18, 2018. The satellite is being prepared for its scheduled launch from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg on the final United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. 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 Solar Array First Motion Test. NASA/KSC, 2018-06-18. Public domain. ID: VAFB-20180618-PH_TMT01_0008.
