Launched the Wideband Global SATCOM-7 (WGS-7) military communications satellite from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta IV Medium+(5,4), expanding the U.S. Department of Defense's high-capacity satellite network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 8 Delta IV M+(5,4) flights
- Date and time
- 24 July 2015, 00:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV M+(5,4)
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2015-036
- Launches in 2015
- 39th of 87
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