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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Delta 2 Rocket Launches New Missile Defense Craft
A quasi-classified satellite that will serve as an engineering trailblazer for ballistic missile tracking technologies flew into space Tuesday.
Mounted aboard a two-stage Delta 2 rocket, the Space Tracking and Surveillance System Advanced Technology Risk Reduction satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base along California's central coastline at 1:24 p.m. PDT (4:24 p.m. EDT; 2024 GMT).
The United Launch Alliance-made rocket, one of the world's most reliable space boosters ever built, knifed through a thin layer of fog draped over the pad and then soared into clear blue skies.
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