SWOT
The SWOT spacecraft in a Thales Alenia Space factory in France, being prepared for shipment to the U.S. A lack of Antonov aircraft meant NASA had to ask the U.S. Air Force for assistance transporting SWOT to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

A joint U.S.-French Earth science mission is ready to be delivered to California for a launch now scheduled for early December, a slight delay caused in part because of transportation issues.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...