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Page last updated at 11:39 GMT, Friday, 20 June 2008 12:39 UK

Ocean mission goes into orbit

A space mission that will be critical to understanding climate change has launched from California.

The spacecraft was built by Thales Alenia Space and launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base.

This footage is courtesy of Nasa

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