WGS-4 (USA-233), the first Block II Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral for the US Air Force. The Block II upgrade added a bypass system tripling the data-relay rate available to reconnaissance aircraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.8 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 8 Delta IV M+(5,4) flights
- Date and time
- 20 January 2012, 00:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV M+(5,4)
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2012-003
- Launches in 2012
- 3rd of 78
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