NASA's IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) satellite launched on this Delta II from Vandenberg. The first spacecraft dedicated to imaging Earth's magnetosphere, it studied the region's global response to solar wind changes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 496 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Delta II 7326-9.5 flights
- Date and time
- 25 March 2000, 20:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7326-9.5
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2000-017
- Launches in 2000
- 19th of 85
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