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NASA's Kennedy space center, as seen from space by the Pléiades Neo satellite, operated by the European aerospace company Airbus.The Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's KSC as seen from space by the Pléiades Neo satellite, operated by the European aerospace company Airbus.SLS and Orion, stacked at launch pad 39B at NASA's KSC, as seen from space by the Pléiades Neo satellite, operated by the European aerospace company Airbus.
The new satellite images from Airbus show KSC from about 385 miles above Earth's surface, with the expansive campus stretching along the Florida coast. The images include a view from space of the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC where SLS and Orion were stacked and assembled and, ultimately, where they left from on their journey to the launch pad.
Zooming in, Pléiades Neo further revealed SLS and Orion at launch pad 39B. As In sharing these photos, an Airbus representative pointed out that the company built the service module component of Orion. The pair are standing 322 feet tall alongside NASA's mobile launcher, which also rolled out to the pad atop the agency's
vehicle. That machinery, also known as"the crawler," carried the millions of pounds of technology to the pad at just about 0.8 mph .
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