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NASA ICON Satellite
It’s official, Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket launched NASA’s long-delayed Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, satellite into orbit at approximately 9:59 p.m. EDT on Oct. 10th from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It will study the dynamic zone in Earth’s atmosphere, or the region where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather from above.