Pegaus ICON Fairing Installation
Technicians install the first of two Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL payload fairings around NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) inside Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on Aug. 22, 2018. The Pegasus XL rocket, attached beneath the company's L-1011 Stargazer aircraft, will launch ICON from the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Launch is scheduled for Oct. 26. ICON will study the frontier of space - the dynamic zone high in Earth's atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather above. The explorer will help determine the physics of Earth's space environment and pave the way for mitigating its effects on our technology and communications systems.
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VAFB-20180822-PH_RKB01_0042
Date Created
August 22, 2018
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KSC
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NASA/Randy Beaudoin
Location
Bldg 1555
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