Delta II

In-active

McDonnell Douglas (MDC)

Feb. 7, 1999

Description

Delta II was an expendable launch system, originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas. Delta II was part of the Delta rocket family and entered service in 1989. Delta II vehicles included the Delta 6000, and the two later Delta 7000 variants ("Light" and "Heavy"). The rocket flew its final mission ICESat-2 on 15 September 2018, earning the launch vehicle a streak of 100 successful missions in a row, with the last failure being GPS IIR-1 in 1997.

Specifications
  • Stages
    4
  • Length
    39.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.44 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    2.44 m
  • Launch Mass
    170.0 T
  • Thrust
    3020.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Delta II
  • Family
  • Variant
    7426-9.5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Delta II 7426-9.5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

McDonnell Douglas

Commercial
None
MDC

None

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Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Feb. 7, 1999, 9:04 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon.

Heliocentric N/A
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