ULA's Delta IV Medium+(5,4) launched Wideband Global SATCOM-8 (WGS-8), a US Air Force high-capacity military communications satellite, from Cape Canaveral toward a classified geostationary slot.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 8 Delta IV M+(5,4) flights
- Date and time
- 7 December 2016, 23:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV M+(5,4)
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-075
- Launches in 2016
- 77th of 85
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