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		Rocket: Delta 2 Payload: WorldView 2 Date: Oct. 8, 2009 Time: 11:38-11:52 a.m. PDT (2:38-2:52 p.m. EDT) Site: SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California Mission Status Center Launch events timeline Ground track map Delta 2 fact sheet The pre-launch flow Space Launch Complex 2 Our Delta archive

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Delta 2 rocket launches WorldView 2

A commercial Earth-imaging satellite built to see the planet's true colors for high-resolution mapping and monitoring launches atop a Delta 2 rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at 11:51 a.m. local time (2:51 p.m. EDT).

Photo credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News

Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News

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