Pegasus Fairing Arrives
July 3, 2012
Workers unload the two halves that make up the Pegasus XL rocket's fairing that will protect the NuSTAR spacecraft during launch. Inside Orbital Science's processing facility, the fairing halves will be unwrapped and processed in a clean room environmental enclosure.
Image credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin, VAFB
Topics:
Parasite aircraft, Air launch to orbit, Explorer program, Environment, Randy Beaudoin, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, Pegasus
