SWOT leaving NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California en route to March Air Reserve Base.
![A photo of the SWOT instrument loaded on a truck outside of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility and the large NASA logo painted on it.](/https/swot.jpl.nasa.gov/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBWkE9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--cba0a4ca965f7d837705eab9c5876f645e2604f3/swot-2021-07-01-100552_-_D2021_0627_RL3991.jpg?disposition=inline)
Source:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published:
January 19, 2022
SWOT leaving NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, en route to March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, California. Once the scientific payload arrived, it was sent to a Thales Alenia Space clean room facility near Cannes, France, where engineers and technicians work to integrate the hardware with the rest of the satellite.