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NASA
Invites Media to View Spacecraft to
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Study
the Frontier of Space
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Cape
Canaveral, FL – September 2018 / Newsmaker
Alert / NASA
is inviting media to view NASA’s Ionospheric
Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft Thursday, Oct. 4, ahead of its
scheduled launch aboard a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket Saturday,
Oct. 6, at 4 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in
Florida.
ICON
will study Earth’s ionosphere to help determine the physical process at
play in this frontier of space where terrestrial weather from below meets
space weather from above and pave the way for mitigating its effects on
our technology and society.
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Media
will be able to interview ICON team members, see the rocket, and tour Northrop
Grumman’s L-1011 “Stargazer” aircraft that will carry the rocket over the
Atlantic Ocean, where it will detach and carry ICON into orbit.
Media
prelaunch activities will take place at CCAFS and neighboring NASA Kennedy
Space Center. Credentialing deadlines are as follows:
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Media
who are U.S. citizens must apply by 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27.
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Media
who are not U.S. citizens must have applied by noon Tuesday, Sept. 4, for
access to CCAFS; or by 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, for access to Kennedy
media activities only.
All media
accreditation requests must be submitted online at:
For questions
about accreditation, media representatives should email ksc-media-accreditat@mail.nasa.gov.
For other questions, contact Kennedy’s newsroom at 321-867-2468.
For
more information about ICON visit:
www.NASA.gov/icon
Press
Contacts:
Dwayne
Brown / Karen Fox
Headquarters,
Washington, D.C.
202-358-1726
/ 301-286-6284
Mary
MacLaughlin / Tori Mclendon
Kennedy
Space Center, FL
321-867-2468
NASA
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