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hey I'm not the Kennedy Kimber taste and

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the Gravity Recovery and climate

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experiment follow-on or grace fo

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successfully launched aboard a SpaceX

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Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday afternoon from

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Vandenberg Air Force Base in California

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the mission will improve weather models

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and forecasts droughts and floods by

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tracking the movement of water around

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earth grace fo is a partnership between

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NASA and the German Research Center for

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geosciences Kennedy Space Center

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employees from NASA's launch services

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program served as advisors for the

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mission which is planned to fly at least

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five years preparations continue for the

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upcoming launch of NASA's ionospheric

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connection Explorer or icon from the

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Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands

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the spacecraft recently arrived at

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Vandenberg Air Force Base where it was

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uncreated and mated to a Pegasus XL

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rocket scheduled to launch on June 14th

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Ikon will study a complicated region of

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near-earth space called the ionosphere

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this is the area through which radio

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communications and GPS signals travel

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icons findings will help reduce the

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effects of the space environment on our

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technology and communications systems

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and remember spaceport magazine digs