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Rocket: Delta 2 (7925)
Payload: STEREO
Date: October 25, 2006
Site: SLC-17B, Cape Canaveral, Florida

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Photo gallery: Mobile service tower rolled back

The launch pad 17B mobile service tower is retracted in preparation for liftoff of the Boeing Delta 2 rocket carrying the twin STEREO solar observatories.

Photo credit: Carleton Bailie for The Boeing Company








 

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