Delta III flew its third and final test flight, carrying the dummy DM-F3 payload simulating a Hughes HS-601 satellite. A premature second-stage shutdown left the payload in a lower-than-planned elliptical orbit, ending the Delta III program at Cape Canaveral.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 3 Delta III 8930 flights
- Date and time
- 23 August 2000, 11:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta III 8930
- Builder
- Boeing
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2000-048
- Launches in 2000
- 50th of 85
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