Delta IV Medium+(5,4) launched WGS-9, the ninth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, a $445 million military communications spacecraft funded jointly by the US, Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg and New Zealand.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 8 Delta IV M+(5,4) flights
- Date and time
- 19 March 2017, 00:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV M+(5,4)
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-016
- Launches in 2017
- 17th of 90
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