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		Rocket: Delta 2 (7420) Payload: CALIPSO & CloudSat Date: April 28, 2006 Time: 1002 GMT (3:02 a.m. PDT; 6:02 a.m. EDT) Site: SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California Broadcast: AMC 6, Transponder 17, digital, 72° West Mission Status Center Launch events timeline Ground track map Delta 2 rocket info Space Launch Complex 2 Our Delta archive

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Pre-launch photo gallery
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: April 21, 2006

The mobile service tower is retracted from around the Boeing Delta 2 rocket in the final hours before the planned launch of the CALIPSO and CloudSat spacecraft for NASA.

Photos by Willam Hartenstein/Aviation Week

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