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    PACE Successfully Completes Key Environmental Test

    Centered in the screen is the observatory, covered in a reflective foil-like material. The observatory is being lowered into a dark, hollow, circular chamber, the TVAC testing chamber.

    Consider it the "mother of all tests." This summer, the PACE spacecraft (short for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) completed a critical phase of its launch journey: the thermal vacuum test (TVAC), where it was subjected to extreme temperatures and pressures in a specialized chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The …

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