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English: Technicians assist as a crane lowers NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) onto a work stand in the high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations facility on June 14, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ICESat-2 was shipped from the Northrop Grumman facility in Gilbert, Arizona, where it was built and tested. The satellite is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg on the final United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket. ICESat-2 will measure the height of a changing Earth, one laser pulse at a time, 10,000 laser pulses a second. The satellite will carry the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System. ICESat-2 will help scientists investigate why, and how much our planet's frozen and icy areas, called the cryosphere, is changing in a warming climate.
Date Taken on 14 June 2018, 14:52:36
Source https://images.nasa.gov/details/VAFB-20180614-PH_AMT01_0035
Author USAF 30th Space Wing/Aaron Taubman
This image or video was catalogued by Vandenberg Air Force Base of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: VAFB-20180614-PH_AMT01_0035.

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