InSight Atlas V Boattail Installation
At Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a boattail fairing has been mated atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Centaur upper stage. The boattail is an adaptor providing an interface between the Centaur and the payload fairing encapsulating NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, spacecraft. A ULA Atlas V rocket is scheduled to liftoff on May 5, 2018, launching InSight the first mission to explore the deep interior of Mars. It will investigate processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system including Earth.
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NASA ID
VAFB-20180308-PH_PNC01_0045
Date Created
March 8, 2018
Center
KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
USAF 30th Space Wing/Pedro Carri
Location
SLC-3
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