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In the SpaceX Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Jason-3 satellite is prepared for encapsulation in its payload faring. Jason-3 is an international partnership consisting of NOAA, NASA, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales -- France’s space agency -- and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites. Thales Alenia of France built the spacecraft