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Preparations are underway to move NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale observatories (MMS), enclosed in an Atlas payload fairing, from the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida, to Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for launch. MMS, led by a team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, consists of four identical spacecraft that will work together to provide the first three-dimensional view of magnetic reconnection, a fundamental process which occurs throughout the universe. Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is set for March 12. To learn more about MMS, visit www.nasa.gov/mms.