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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians set the Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, spacecraft inside their payload fairing on the top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The two spacecraft are designed to study the Van Allen radiation belts in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Dmitri Gerondidakis