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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Team Vandenberg is scheduled to launch a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4-E here, Thursday, Dec. 15, at approximately 3:46 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.