Capture Date: 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, spacecraft inside their payload fairing are prepared before they are hoisted to the top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The two spacecraft are designed to study the Van Allen radiation belts in unprecedented detail. Photo credit: NASA/Dmitri Gerondidakis