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Pegasus XL CYGNSS Final Wing Installation
Pegasus XL CYGNSS Final Wing Installation
Pegasus XL CYGNSS Final Wing Installation
Pegasus XL CYGNSS Final Wing Installation
Pegasus XL CYGNSS Final Wing Installation
Pegasus XL CYGNSS Fin Installation
Pegasus XL CYGNSS Fin Installation
Pegasus XL CYGNSS Fin Installation
Pegasus XL CYGNSS Fin Installation
Pegasus XL CYGNSS Final Wing Installation
Summary
Inside Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians and engineers perform final wing installations on the Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket which will launch eight NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, spacecraft. When preparations are completed at Vandenberg, the rocket, with CYGNSS in its payload fairing, will be attached to the Orbital ATK L-1011 carrier aircraft and transported to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On Dec. 12, 2016, the carrier aircraft is scheduled to take off from the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and CYGNSS will launch on the Pegasus XL rocket with the L-1011 flying off shore. CYGNSS will make frequent and accurate measurements of ocean surface winds throughout the life cycle of tropical storms and hurricanes. The data that CYGNSS provides will enable scientists to probe key air-sea interaction processes that take place near the core of storms, which are rapidly changing and play a critical role in the beginning and intensification of hurricanes.
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