Final flight of the Delta II rocket after 29 years and roughly 100 missions, carrying NASA's ICESat-2 satellite to measure the changing thickness of Earth's ice sheets and sea ice using a laser altimeter, plus several small CubeSats under the ELaNa XVIII program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 14 Delta II 7420-10C flights
- Date and time
- 15 September 2018, 13:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7420-10C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2018-070
- Launches in 2018
- 70th of 114
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Object pages on Space Atlas: ICESat-2
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