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 finish installing NASA's National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft in a payload transportation canister in preparation for its trip to the launch pad.
Image credit: NASA/Roy Allison, VAFB
Oct. 11, 2011
Topics:
Environment, Space, Spacecraft, Spaceflight, Technology Internet, Suomi NPP, NPOESS Preparatory Project, Polar, NPOESS, Astrotech Corporation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
