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Inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, both halves of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) payload fairing are slowly moved around the Landsat 9 spacecraft on Aug. 16, 2021.

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English: Inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, both halves of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) payload fairing are slowly moved around the Landsat 9 spacecraft on Aug. 16, 2021. The payload fairing will be secured around Landsat 9 to protect it during launch atop the ULA Atlas V rocket. Landsat 9 will launch on the Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg in September 2021. The launch is being managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center, America’s multi-user spaceport. The Landsat 9 satellite will continue the nearly 50-year legacy of previous Landsat missions. It will monitor key natural and economic resources from orbit. Landsat 9 is managed by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The satellite will carry two instruments: the Operational Land Imager 2, which collects images of Earth’s landscapes in visible, near infrared and shortwave infrared light, and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2, which measures the temperature of land surfaces. Like its predecessors, Landsat 9 is a joint mission between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Date Taken on 16 August 2021
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This image or video was catalogued by Kennedy Space Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: KSC-20210816-PH-CNO01_0056.

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Author NASA Kennedy Space Center / USSF 30th Space Wing/Chris Okula

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