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NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale observatories (MMS), enclosed in an Atlas payload fairing, departs from the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida, for Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. 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.