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Atlas V MMS
The 45th Space Wing supported the successful launch of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission that launched aboard an Atlas V rocket March 12, 2015, at 10:44 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission will use four identical spacecraft, variably spaced in Earth orbit, to make 3-D measurements of magnetospheric boundary regions and examine the process of magnetic reconnection. (Courtesy Photo/United Launch Alliance)

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