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NASA launches Landsat 8 into orbit

NASA successfully launched the world’s latest earth-observing satellite aboard an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California today, crystallizing hopes that US scientists will be able to maintain and enhance a continuous environmental monitoring record that dates back more than four decades. 

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