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At Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket roars to life. The liftoff will boost NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite, or SMAP, to orbit. Liftoff was at 9:22 a.m. EST. SMAP is designed to produce the highest-resolution maps of soil moisture ever obtained from space. To learn more about SMAP, visit www.nasa.gov/smap
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At Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket roars to life. The liftoff will boost NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite, or SMAP, to orbit. Liftoff was at 9:22 a.m. EST. SMAP is designed to produce the highest-resolution maps of soil moisture ever obtained from space. To learn more about SMAP, visit www.nasa.gov/smap
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