CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The United Launch Alliance Atlas V first stage booster for NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission passes the secure gate at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida en route to the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center, or ASOC. 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. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/rbsp. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
Location Cape Canaveral, FL
Date June 19, 2012