CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Tucked inside their payload fairing, the twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, spacecraft stand atop 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
Location Cape Canaveral, FL
Date August 10, 2012