Delta II Rocket Taking Off

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Launch of a Delta II rocket carrying the commercial GeoEye-1 satellite, September 6, 2008, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The satellite was put into a circular sun-synchronous orbit, collecting multispectral or color images of the Earth for both government and commercial organizations.

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Keywords: -, 1, astronomy, delta, eye, geo, geo-eye, geoeye, geoeye-1, ii, launch, lift, lift-, program, rocket, satellite, space, states, technology, united, vehicle