NPP Spacecraft
January 15, 2013
In a clean room inside the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Ball Aerospace technicians rotate NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft into the vertical position during a solar array frangible bolt pre-load verification test.
Image credit: NASA/30th Communications Squadron, VAFB
Sept. 8, 2011
Topics:
Environment, Technology Internet, Astrotech Corporation, NPOESS, California, NPOESS Preparatory Project, Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space technology, Spaceflight, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
