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SMC and its mission partners successfully launch Fifth GPS III satellite

Under the power of nine Merlin engines, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle, lifts off from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:09 p.m. EDT (9:09 am. PDT) June 17, carrying the fifth Lockheed Martin-built Global Positioning Systems (GPS) III Space Vehicle (SV05) into Medium Earth Orbit for the U.S. Space Force. (Courtesy Photo by SpaceX)

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CAMERA

Canon EOS 60D

LENS

EF24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

APERTURE

11

SHUTTERSPEED

1/800

ISO

200

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