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Summary

Description	English: VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Installation of the Delta II payload fairing around NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is under way in the White Room at Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The fairing protects the spacecraft from aerodynamic forces during launch. WISE will survey the entire sky at infrared wavelengths, creating a cosmic clearinghouse of hundreds of millions of objects which will be catalogued and provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the universe. Launch is scheduled for Dec. 9. For additional information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/wise . Deutsch: Die erste Hälfte der Nutzlastverkleidung wurde bereits um WISE montiert.
Date	25 November 2009
Source	http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=44552
Author	Photo credit: NASA/VAFB

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