Operations are underway to move the protective shipping container enclosing the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft at the Astrotech facility.

Operations are underway to move the protective shipping container enclosing the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft into the airlock of Building 2 at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near Kennedy Space Center.

MMS is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth’s magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration and turbulence. Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is targeted for March 12, 2015. To learn more about MMS, visit http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett