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The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) science instrument payload, housed in a specially designed shipping...
A specially designed, climate-controlled shipping container holding the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR)...
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 23, 2023, engineers and technicians use a crane to...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Under the watchful eyes of United launch Alliance engineers and technicians at the Astrotech...
Technicians remove the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V boattail from its shipping container following its...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In Discovery's payload bay in Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, STS-120 crew members...
A crane is used to transfer NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar...
The Zenith-1 (Z-1) Truss is officially presented to NASA by The Boeing Co. on the Space Station Processing Facility...
The secondary payload adapter for NASA’s Landsat 9 mission is staged for further testing at Vandenberg Space Force...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
Technicians begin to attach the Landsat 9 spacecraft to the evolved expendable vehicle secondary payload adapter...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In Discovery's payload bay in Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, STS-120 crew members...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the...
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, part of the servicing equipment for the third Hubble Space Telescope...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Pad 39B, the payload canister for Space Shuttle Discovery, for mission...
Technicians perform a blacklight inspection of the secondary payload adapter for NASA’s Landsat 9 mission at...
Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assist as the...
In the foreground inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California,...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Under the watchful eyes of United Launch Alliance engineers and technicians at the Astrotech...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a payload...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite secured inside its payload...
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Members of the news media are given an up-close look at the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or...
A crane is used to lift NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite...