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The Advanced Composition Explorer ACE spacecraft is placed atop its launch vehicle at Launch Complex 17A.
NASA
Washington, DC, United States
The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft is placed atop its launch vehicle at Launch Complex 17A. Scheduled for launch on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Station on Aug. 24, ACE will study low-energy particles of solar origin and high-energy galactic particles. The collecting power of instruments aboard ACE is 10 to 1,000 times greater than anything previously flown to collect similar data by NASA
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- Title: The Advanced Composition Explorer ACE spacecraft is placed atop its launch vehicle at Launch Complex 17A.
- Location: Cape Canaveral, FL
- Owner: KSC
- Album: cbabir
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