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NASA Glenn conducted a test on the Ariane 5 Payload Fairing at Plum Brook’s Space Power Facility (SPF). The test was...
The Voyager 2 spacecraft, encapsulated within its payload fairing, is seen in August 1977, as it was being hoisted...
Preparations are under way to enclose NASA Mars Science Laboratory in an Atlas V rocket payload fairing. The fairing...
Technicians encapsulated the SWOT satellite, or the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, in its payload...
Top down photograph showing separation of the Ariane V fairing after testing in the vacuum chamber at SEC
The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is moved inside the Payload Hazardous...
The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is being prepared for the move to the...
The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is being moved to the Payload Hazardous...
The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is moved to the entrance of the Payload...
The payload fairing for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is moved inside the Payload Hazardous...
The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite was encapsulated in its payload fairing at ISRO's Satish...
Employees at the Space Power Facility (SPF) at Plum Brook Station tested a new generation of Atlas/Centaur launch...
An Orbital Sciences technician completes final checks of NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR,...
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, encapsulated within its payload fairing, is seen on August 5, 1977. It launched atop...
The interior of the Soyuz Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan is seen, Thursday,...
The interior of the Soyuz Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan is seen, Thursday,...
In the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41, the payload fairing containing NASA Mars Science...
Spacecraft technicians monitor the movement of a section of the clamshell-shaped Delta payload fairing as it...
At Space Launch Complex 41, the Juno spacecraft, enclosed in an Atlas payload fairing, was transferred into the...
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is encapsulated in a protective nosecone, or payload fairing, in the...
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is secured inside the United Launch Alliance payload fairing in the Astrotech Space...
Inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United Launch Alliance (ULA)...
Inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United Launch Alliance (ULA)...
Inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United Launch Alliance (ULA)...