
Workers make final checks as the second part of the bi-sector payload fairing for the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is closed around the spacecraft at Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station. ACE will be launched on a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle. The spacecraft will investigate the origin and evolution of solar phenomenon, the formation of solar corona, solar flares and acceleration of the solar wind. This will be the second Delta launch under the Boeing name and the first from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff is scheduled Aug. 24
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August 19, 1997
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Cape Canaveral, FL
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