VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A small NASA satellite that will study the sun has arrived at its Central Coast launch site.

The Lompoc Record (http://bit.ly/17ZAHlJ) reports that the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft — called IRIS for short — reached Vandenberg Air Force Base last week after a journey from its manufacturing site at a Lockheed Martin facility in Palo Alto.

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