KSC-95PC-1159
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 SAEF-2) lift the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SOHO after its removal from the crate it was shipped in from France. The SOHO spacecraft will carry a complement of 11 instruments from NASA and the European Space Agency ESA to study the origin of the energy within the sun which reaches the sun’s surface. SOHO was manufactured in France by Matra Marconi under a contract with ESA. The observatory will receive final testing and preparations for launch in SAEF-2. SOHO is targeted for launch on an Atlas IIAS from Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Air Station, between Oct. 31 and Nov. 7, 1995. Photo Credit: NASA
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September 13, 1994
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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