The Centaur upper stage is moved into the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center, or ASOC, to begin checkout for the launch of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, mission
In the clean room high bay at the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians prepare to clean and inspect Radiation Belt Storm Probes A and B. The Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, mission will help us understand the sun’s influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the Earth’s radiation belts on various scales of space and time. RBSP will begin its mission of exploration of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts and the extremes of space weather after its launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
I see the centaur that arrives earlier is off on the right side of the bottom picture. How big is the ASOC ? How many cores / missions can they work on at the same time ?
and arrival of the 1st stage on the Delta Mariner and then transport to Atlas Spaceflight Operations CenterGreat time for EELV operations
Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians deploy the solar arrays and magnetometer boom of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, spacecraft A.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknDzp_uPek&feature=youtu.be
and now the Centaur Upperstage is at the pad:
Centaur stacked on the core stage:The LUT looks like it could use some maintenance....http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=4