Kennedy Countdown for August 13, 2021

Installation of small satellites, called CubeSats, continues in the Orion spacecraft adapter at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians from the center’s Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs are working with CubeSat developers to secure the shoebox-sized secondary payloads inside Orion’s stage adapter.

Also, work is underway to get NASA’s Lucy spacecraft ready for launch at Kennedy Space Center. Workers unpacked the spacecraft from its shipping container and moved it onto a dolly to begin testing and checkouts. Lucy will be the first space mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, which may be remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets of our solar system.

Видео Kennedy Countdown for August 13, 2021 канала NASA's Kennedy Space Center