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Flight Battery Installation

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Using a special handling fixture, APL STEREO technicians install Observatory B's flight battery, which will be used to power the spacecraft and its components during its mission. Observatory "B" is the spacecraft that will be "behind" Earth in its orbit around the sun.


Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

 
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