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KSC-2011-7571
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – At Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex-2 in California, the mobile service tower begins to roll back from around a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft aboard. NPP represents a critical first step in building the next-generation of Earth-observing satellites.
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Credit lineKSC-2011-7571. NASA/KSC, 2011-10-27. Public domain. ID: 2011-7571.
