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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers at left guide the shipping cage removed from around NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, at right. The satellite's primary mission is to search for water ice on the moon in a permanently shadowed crater near one of the lunar poles. LCROSS is a low-cost, accelerated-development, companion mission to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO. At Kennedy, the two spacecraft will be integrated with an Atlas V launch vehicle and tested for final flight worthiness. LCROSS and LRO are the first missions in NASA's plan to return humans to the moon and begin establishing a lunar outpost by 2020. Launch is no earlier than April 24. Photo credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs KSC-2009-1744

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the Multi-Use Lightweight Equipment, or MULE, carrier rests on a stand in the high bay. The MULE is part of the payload for the fifth and final shuttle servicing mission to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, STS-125. The MULE carrier will join the Flight Support System, the Super Lightweight Interchangeable Carrier and the Orbital Replacement Unit Carrier in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility where the Hubble payload is being prepared for launch. The Relative Navigation Sensors and the New Outer Blanket Layers will be on the MULE. The payload is scheduled to go to Launch Pad 39A in mid-September to be installed into Atlantis' payload bay. Atlantis is targeted to launch Oct. 8 at 1:34 a.m. EDT. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller KSC-08pd2313

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Inside the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2, a covered Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) satellite is revealed after removal of the container (far right). MAP will undergo testing in the SAEF-2 before its scheduled launch June 30 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a Delta II rocket into a lunar-assisted trajectory to the Sun-Earth for a 27-month mission (3 months transit, 24 months observing). The MAP instrument consists of a set of passively cooled microwave radiometers with 1.4x 1.6-meter diameter primary reflectors to provide the desired angular resolution. MAP measures small fluctuations in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation to an accuracy of one millionth of a degree. These measurements should reveal the size, matter content, age, geometry and fate of the universe. They will also reveal the primordial structure that grew to form galaxies and will test ideas about the origins of these primordial structures. The MAP instrument will be continuously shaded from the Sun, Earth, and Moon by the spacecraft. It is a product of Goddard Space Flight Center in partnership with Princeton University KSC-01pp0887

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., workers maneuver the position of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, after its rotation. The SDO will be moved to a work stand. SDO is the first space weather research network mission in NASA's Living With a Star Program. The spacecraft's long-term measurements will give solar scientists in-depth information about changes in the sun's magnetic field and insight into how they affect Earth. In preparation for its anticipated November launch, engineers will perform a battery of comprehensive tests to ensure SDO can withstand the stresses and vibrations of the launch itself, as well as what it will encounter in the space environment after launch. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston KSC-2009-4025

LDEF (Postflight), NASA history collection

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LDEF (Postflight) EL-1994-00288 LDEF (Postflight) Изображение дает общее представление об экспериментах LDEF, расположенных в Bays D, заливе, примыкающем к структуре центрального кольца, thru Bay F в Rows 8, верхний ряд, thru Row 11, нижний ряд. LDEF монтируется на LDEF Assembly and Transport System (LATS) в режиме вращения. Показанные поверхности были обращены в направлении вектора орбитальной скорости и, следовательно, подвергались воздействию более высоких уровней потока атомарного кислорода. На снимке видны поверхности сразу после того, как LDEF прибыл на SAEF II, и до начала операций по дезактивации. Большинство экспериментов, за исключением эксперимента Дебриса (S0001), похоже, были сведены на нет эрозией образцов тонкопленочных полимеров и / или изменением цвета. Образцы тонкопленочного полимера широко используются в экспериментах, проводимых в позициях LDEF D09, D10, E08 и F09. Серебристый материал покрытия TEON _ thermal на экспериментах, расположенных в позициях D11 и E10, кажется непрозрачным с рандомно расположенными темными пятнами, которые кажутся точками падения обломков. Поверхность, окрашенная черным цветом на эксперименте в месте расположения Е09, размыла красную грунтовку, в то время как некоторые белые пятна на поверхности эксперимента и желтая краска на пластинке-шпильке появились почти в предстартовом состоянии. NASA: NIX-EL-1994-00288

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1990