Go behind the scenes as we unbox NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, after its arrival at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Northrop Grumman engineer Steve Turek and NASA EDGE’s Chris Giersch walk us through the whole process of unboxing a spacecraft – from the instrument that records every tiny bump on its journey to the special crane used to lift the spacecraft to its new home. ICON launches in fall 2018 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to study Earth’s interface to space.
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NASA ID
GSFC_20181019_ICON_m12971_Unbox
Date Created
October 19, 2018
Center
GSFC
Media Type
video
Photographer
Cory Huston
Location
Goddard Space Flight Center
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