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RBSP Launch

Launch: Aug. 30, 2012

Awaiting launch: Aug 24, 2012.

Launch Preparations

Arm installation	Final blanket close out	Team in Florida


August 10, 2012: RBSP Spacecraft and fairing make a stop at the VAB, then on to the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Cape Canaveral. Photos courtesy of NASA-KSC

ECT on RBSP

RBSP	ECT on RBSP	Research Instruments on RBSP

ECT Instrument Design

Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS)	Helium Oxygen Proton Electron (HOPE)	Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope (REPT)

MagEIS	HOPE in calibration chamber	REPT flight model

RBSP Spacecraft Artist's renderings based on mission and spacecraft details.

RBSP after separation from launch vehicle	RBSP array deployment	RBSP with stacer booms deployed

The probes will orbit through inner & outer radiation belts	Elliptical orbits will range in altitude from 373mi. to 23,000 mi.
Artist's renderings courtesy of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Visualization

Visualization of actual RBSP TLEs (predicted). Field lines are the drift shell connected to one GPS satellite.
Visualization courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
RBSP and ECT Logos

Artist's rendering of RBSP spacecraft.	The RBSP-ECT logo	RBSP-ECT shirt graphic