NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft is pictured during pre-launch processing on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, inside a cleanroom at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA invited members of the media to speak with mission subject matter experts and view the spacecraft before it is encapsulated into its payload fairing for its launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

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