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Rocket: Delta 2 (7420)
Payload: GeoEye 1
Date: Sept. 6, 2008
Window: 11:50:57 a.m. PDT (2:50:57 p.m. EDT)
Site: SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

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Delta rocket launches GeoEye 1
Posted: September 6, 2008

A Delta 2 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying the GeoEye 1 commercial Earth-imaging satellite.

Credit: Boeing photos by Carleton Bailie









Credit: Boeing photos by Carleton Bailie
 

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