NASA Launches Aura Satellite

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After several delays and two scrubbed launch attempts, NASA officials successfully launched an Earth-watching satellite early Thursday on a mission to study the planet’s atmosphere.

Sitting atop a 12-story Delta 2 rocket, the Aura spacecraft punched through the still-dark morning sky above Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The on-time flight began at 6:01:59 a.m. EDT (1001:59 GMT) as Aura rose from its launch pad at Vandenberg’s Space Launch Complex 2.

“The Aura spacecraft is on its way to orbit the Earth it will study,” said NASA launch commentator Bruce Buckingham as the spacecraft rocketed away from the California coast.

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The $785 million Aura satellite contains four instruments tucked into a 6,500-pound (2,948-kilogram) satellite the size of a school bus.

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