Launched NASA's Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP, later renamed WMAP) from Cape Canaveral toward the Sun-Earth L2 point to map temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation across the whole sky.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- L2
- Sun-Earth L2
- Payload to orbit
- 840 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Delta II 7425-10 flight
- Date and time
- 30 June 2001, 19:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7425-10
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2001-027
- Launches in 2001
- 27th of 59
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