
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A United Launch Alliance Atlas V with NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory launches from its Space Launch Complex-41 launch pad at 10:23 a.m. EST here today. SDO is the first satellite of NASA’s Living with a Star (LWS) program. Its purpose is to examine the sun, the source of all space weather. Photo by Pat Corkery, United Launch Alliance
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