Final Delta 2 rocket launches $1 billion ice probe

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Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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Ending a 30-year run as one of America’s most successful rockets, a United Launch Alliance’s 155th and final Delta 2 roared to life for the last time Saturday carrying a $1 billion NASA satellite into orbit to measure the thickness and extent of polar ice sheets, changes in sea level and the height of forest canopies and clouds…

Read Full Article; CBS News (09-15-2018)

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