Sun  ID: 12971

Unboxing a New NASA Spacecraft

Go behind the scenes as we unbox NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, after its arrival at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Northrop Grumman engineer Steve Turek and NASA EDGE’s Chris Giersch walk us through the whole process of unboxing a spacecraft – from the instrument that records every tiny bump on its journey to the special crane used to lift the spacecraft to its new home.


ICON launches in fall 2018 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to study Earth’s interface to space. Read more about the ICON mission: nasa.gov/icon

 

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Credits

Producers:
Joy Ng (USRA)
Sarah Frazier (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Karen Fox (ADNET Systems, Inc.)

Host:
Chris Giersch (Genex Systems)

Videographer:
Cory Huston (ASRC Federal Data Solutions)

Interviewee:
Steve Turek (Northrop Grumman)

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Mission:
Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON)

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Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
GCMD >> Location >> Ionosphere
NASA Science >> Sun
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Dynamics
SVS >> Icon
SVS >> Unboxing
SVS >> Vandenberg Air Force Base

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0