THEMIS launch

[tagryn]

Successful launch today of a NASA mission to study the northern lights using 5 identical satellites. There's a neat video of the launch on board a Delta III rocket over at nasa.gov. I think the best part is at 1:15 and 2:28 where 5 and 3 solid rocket boosters are jettisoned, respectively; by way of comparison, a typical Shuttle flight uses only 2 SRBs, so that many being shed at one time is quite a show.