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Awaiting Transport

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The custom flatbed truck, with the two shipping containers loaded carrying the twin STEREO observatories, sits overnight in a secure garage at APL awaiting its early morning departure to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. There the observatories will undergo additional pre-launch checks.


Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

 
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