MMS Satellite almost burns up before it leaves NRL hangar

DVIDS - News - Navy civilian firefighters save NASA satellite
Civilian firefighters and their leaders based at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB) helped save a $450 million NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellite (MMS) satellite from destruction.

Read more: http://www.dvidshub.net/news/117423/navy-civilian-firefighters-save-nasa-satellite#.Up-b9eIud6p#ixzz2mXkFr0aL

The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth’s magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence. These processes occur in all astrophysical plasma systems but can be studied in situ only in our solar system and most efficiently only in Earth’s magnetosphere, where they control the dynamics of the geospace environment and play an important role in the processes known as “space weather.”