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#Video: Liftoff of WorldView 4 aboard Atlas 5 rocket

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The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 189 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, unleashes 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine at 10:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. EST; 1830 GMT) today to launch the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

See earlier WorldView 4 coverage.

Our Atlas archive.

from Spaceflight Now ift.tt/2fKMbn3

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