A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the NASA/German Research Centre for Geosciences GRACE Follow-On from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA. The mission: to measure changes in how mass is redistributed within and among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land and ice sheets, as well as within Earth itself. GRACE-FO is sharing its ride to orbit with five Iridium NEXT communications satellites as part of a commercial rideshare agreement. 22 May 2018 A unique and digitally optimised version of a NASA image by senior NASA photographer Bill Ingalls / credit NASA

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Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base
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