Italian satellite launched from California

October 25, 2008 Italian satellite launched from California (AP)

The third COSMO-SkyMed spacecraft for Italy's civil and security Earth-observing system lifts off from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 10:28 p.m.. EDT Friday Oct. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Gene Blevins)

(AP) -- A rocket carrying an Italian Earth-observation satellite blasted off Friday evening from the California coast.

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