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hi I'm Esther Kenny's Rob student and

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at Vandenberg Air Force Base in

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California

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NASA's preparing to launch the ice cloud

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and land elevation satellite to the I

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set to spacecraft recently arrived at

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the West Coast launch site and was

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transported to the Astrotech processing

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facility after removal from the shipping

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container I set to was placed on a work

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stand in the facilities high bait with

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pre-flight checkouts now are underway in

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the meantime the United Launch Alliance

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Delta 2 rocket is being prepared at

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Vandenberg space launch complex-2

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the rocket its solid motors and upper

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stage now are in place for the final

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mission for the venerable workhorse in

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use since 1989 I set to his design to

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use lasers and a very precise detection

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instrument to measure the elevation of

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Earth's surface by timing how long it

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takes laser beams to travel from the

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satellite to earth and back scientists

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can calculate the height of glaciers sea

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ice forests lakes and the ice sheets of

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Greenland and Antarctica and remember

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