NASA's Polar spacecraft launched on Delta II

NASA's Polar spacecraft, one of two built for the Global Geospace Science mission, is in its planned elliptical polar orbit after a Saturday launch aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta II rocket. Liftoff from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., came at 6:24 a.m. EST Saturday, and the spacecraft separated from the...

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