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hi I'm NASA Kennedy's Carla cookie and

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I'm taking you inside KSC

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at Vandenberg Air Force Base in

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California the payload fairing has been

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installed on Dunn Northrop Grumman

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Pegasus XL rocket that will launch

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NASA's ionospheric connection Explorer

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or icon the satellite is being prepared

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for launch on a Pegasus XL rocket which

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will be carried aloft by the company's

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l-1011 stargazer aircraft the jet with

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the Pegasus XL attached will fly from

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Vandenberg where it was processed

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through the skid strip at Cape Canaveral

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Air Force Station on October 26 the

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stargazer is scheduled to take off from

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the Cape while flying over the Atlantic

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Ocean the Pegasus XL will be dropped

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with the engine igniting five seconds

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later becoming the sixth mission for the

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Kennedy Space Center's launch services

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programs this year Ikon will study the

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frontier of space the zone high in

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Earth's atmosphere will terrestrial

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weather meets weather and space Mike

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Kennedy's launch complex 39b

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the pads ignition overpressure

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protection and sound suppression water

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deluge system underwent to flow tests

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this week the testing is part of

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exploration ground systems preparation

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for the new Space Launch System rocket

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during launch this water deluge system

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releases approximately 450,000 gallons

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of water across the mobile launcher and

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flame deflector to reduce the extreme

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heat and energy generated by the rocket

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during ignition and liftoff and remember

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spaceport magazine digs deeper inside