The 100th Delta II launch carried the joint NASA/CNES Jason-1 ocean-altimetry satellite, which continued the sea-surface height record begun by TOPEX/Poseidon, alongside NASA's TIMED probe to study the thermosphere, mesosphere and lower ionosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- HEO
- Highly elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 9 Delta II 7920-10 flights
- Date and time
- 7 December 2001, 15:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7920-10
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2001-055
- Launches in 2001
- 56th of 59
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