Launched GeoLITE (Geosynchronous Lightweight Technology Experiment) from Cape Canaveral for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, a technology demonstrator testing a laser communications terminal alongside an operational UHF relay payload.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 26 Delta II 7925-9.5 flights
- Date and time
- 18 May 2001, 17:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925-9.5
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2001-020
- Launches in 2001
- 20th of 59
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