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		Rocket: Delta 2 (7420) Payload: COSMO 2 Date: Dec. 8, 2007 Time: 6:31 p.m. PST (9:31 p.m. EST) Site: SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California Broadcast: AMC 16, Transponder 21, Ku-band Mission Status Center Launch events timeline Ground track map Delta 2 rocket info The pre-launch flow Space Launch Complex 2 Our Delta archive

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Delta launches COSMO 2
Posted: December 9, 2007

The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket fires away from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base for its successful flight carrying the COSMO 2 radar imaging satellite.

Photo credit: Thom Baur/Boeing

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