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The Atlas payload fairing enclosing NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale observatories (MMS) is attached to a lifting device for its hoist into the Vertical Integration Facility on Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. 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.