Pegasus ICON Spacecraft Mate
Technicians attach NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) to the Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket inside Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on Sept. 10, 2019. 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. 9, 2019. 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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Keywords
ICONIonospheric Connection ExplorerNASALSPLaunch Services ProgramKSCKennedy Space CenterNorthrop GrummanPegasus XLLEOStar-2VAFBVandenberg Air Force BaseMIHGTIMichelson Interferometer for Global High resolution imaging of tEUVExtreme Ultraviolet spectrometerICPInstrument Control PackageIVMIon Velocity MeterFUVFar Ultraviolet spectrometerfairing
Details
NASA ID
VAFB-20190910-PH_ENM01_0009
Date Created
September 10, 2019
Center
KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
USAF 30th SCS/Ernest Mendez
Location
Bldg 1555, VAFB
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