Rocket: Delta 2
Payload: WISE
Date: Dec. 14, 2009
Window: 6:09 to 6:23 a.m. Pacific Time
Site: SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

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By Justin Ray

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The Delta 2 rocket launches WISE.
Credit: Bill Hartenstein/ULA

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This flight of the Delta 2 rocket carries NASA's WISE infrared space observatory.