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		Rocket: Delta 2 (7920) Payload: WorldView 1 Date: Sept. 18, 2007 Time: 11:35-11:49 a.m. PDT (2:35-2:49 p.m. EDT) Site: SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California Mission Status Center Launch events timeline Ground track map Delta 2 rocket info The pre-launch flow Space Launch Complex 2 Our Delta archive

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Delta ready to launch
Posted: September 18, 2007

The mobile service tower is rolled back from the Delta 2 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 2 pad in hours leading up to liftoff of the WorldView 1 commercial Earth-imaging satellite.

Photos by Carleton Bailie for Boeing and ULA

Photos by Carleton Bailie for Boeing and United Launch Alliance

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