Delta IV Medium+(5,4) launched the WGS-5 (USA-243) military communications satellite for the Wideband Global SATCOM constellation, marking the Delta IV's return to flight after a prior anomaly investigation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.8 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 8 Delta IV M+(5,4) flights
- Date and time
- 25 May 2013, 00:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV M+(5,4)
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2013-024
- Launches in 2013
- 25th of 81
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