Let's do launch

Members of the 920th Rescue Wing provided range-clearance and safety support for the successful launch of a navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System at 8:03 p.m. May 16 from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket carried the Air Force's sixth Block IIF-6 satellite into orbit roughly 11,000 miles above Earth, where it joined a worldwide timing and navigation system of two dozen other GPS satellites. The 920 Rescue Wing sends helicopters to clear the Eastern Range prior to every launch. The Eastern Range is a 70-mile long by 10-mile wide section of ocean delineating a rocket's launch path, which must be cleared of all marine and air traffic prior to launch to ensure aircraft and boaters are a safe distance from potentially-falling rocket debris. (Courtesy photo/United Launch Alliance)

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