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Fairing for RBSP Spacecraft
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Fairing for RBSP Spacecraft

August 22, 2012
Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians offload and prepare to uncover the nose cone fairing for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes. The nose faring will house and protect the spacecraft during liftoff aboard an Atlas V rocket. Image credit: NASA/ Charisse Nahser July 12, 2012