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Credit: NASA/Lee Wingfield
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Credit: NASA/Lee Wingfield
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Time-lapse photograph shows the first and second stages of the 2 Black Brant X rockets for VISIONS-2 and the telemetry antennas in the foreground as the rockets leave the launch pad from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, in Norway.
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