The mobile service tower rolls toward the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Aboard the rocket is NOAA's Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite, or SMAP, designed to produce the highest-resolution maps of soil moisture ever obtained from space. Launch was postponed today due to violation of upper-level wind shear constraints. Launch now is targeted for Jan. 31.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117491279" class="extiw" title="d:Q117491279"><span title="American photographer">Randy Beaudoin</span></a>
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2015-01-29
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