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SWOT's scientific payload loading into a U.S. Air Force C-17 airplane for transport to Cannes, France.

Team members pushing the SWOT scientific payload onto an airplane for transport to France.
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published: January 19, 2022

Teams from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California, loaded the scientific payload for the SWOT Earth-observing satellite into a U.S. Air Force C-17 airplane on June 27. The hardware is headed to a clean room facility near Cannes, France.

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