Delta II launched NASA's Genesis spacecraft toward the Sun-Earth L1 point to collect solar wind particles for later return to Earth, the fifth mission in NASA's Discovery program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- L1-point
- Sun-Earth L1
- Payload to orbit
- 856 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 3 Delta II 7326-9.5 flights
- Date and time
- 8 August 2001, 16:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7326-9.5
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2001-034
- Launches in 2001
- 34th of 59
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