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Photo Gallery: Delta IV rocket launches WGS-8

The Delta IV as seen in a sequence of eight photos spanning the three seconds from RS-68A engine ignition to liftoff. Photo Credit: Michael Seeley / We Report Space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Lighting up the dark Floridian skies Dec. 7, 2016, on its journey into space, United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Medium+ (5,4) rocket sent the newest member of the U.S. Air Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM…