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French-US Jason 2 satellite blasts off: NASA
0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The French-US oceanographic monitoring satellite Jason 2, designed to measure rising sea levels and track the effects of climate change, was successfully launched into space Friday, NASA said.
"Lift-off of the Delta 2 (rocket), with Jason 2 for the ocean survey topography mission, measuring sea level from space," a NASA official announced moments after the 0746 GMT launch from California's Vandenberg Air Force base.
"Everything is going according to the... flight path," a second official said minutes after the liquid-oxygen-fueled rocket sent an explosive arc of light into the night sky, some 160 miles (256 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.
Jason 2 is a high-tech oceanography space lab designed to provide precise monitoring of rising...
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