VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — NASA has launched a satellite on a mission to examine a little-studied region of the sun that it hopes will improve space weather prediction. The Iris satellite is riding into Earth orbit on a Pegasus rocket, which was air-launched over the Pacific Ocean Thursday evening. The airplane carrying the rocket and satellite took off around sunset from Vandenberg Air Force Base along California’s central coast. More business newsFirm allegedly misled government about security clearance checks Tom Hamburger and Zachary A. Goldfarb Investigators have told lawmakers...
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