Rocket: Atlas 5
Payload: SDO
Date: Feb. 11, 2010
Window: 10:23-11:23 a.m. EST
Site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral, Florida
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The Atlas 5 rocket launches solar physics probe.
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission in the Living With a Star program.
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