Delta IV Heavy launched Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), the first uncrewed test flight of NASA's Orion crew capsule. The two-orbit, four-hour mission reached a high apogee before a high-speed reentry test, splashing down in the Pacific for recovery by USS Anchorage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 12.6 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 16 Delta IV Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 5 December 2014, 12:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2014-077
- Launches in 2014
- 79th of 92
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