Sentinel-6 Encapsulation
Inside SpaceX’s Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite is being encapsulated in the SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing on Nov. 3, 2020. Sentinel-6 is scheduled to launch on Nov. 21, 2020, at 12:17 p.m. EST (9:17 a.m. PST), atop the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
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KSC-20201103-PH-RNB01_0003
Date Created
November 3, 2020
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KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA/Randy Beaudoin
Location
SpaceX PPF, SLC-4 VAFB
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