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Launch of military weather satellite aboard Delta 4
The Boeing Delta 4 rocket launches at 5:53 a.m. local time from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying the DMSP F17 weather satellite.
Photo credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News
Photo credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News
Photo credit: Thom Baur/Boeing
Photo credit: Air Force image by Joe Davila, 30th Space Communications Squadron