The inaugural flight of Boeing's Delta IV rocket, in the Medium+(4,2) configuration, launched the Eutelsat W5 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral into geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 15 Delta IV M+(4,2) flights
- Date and time
- 20 November 2002, 22:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV M+(4,2)
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-051
- Launches in 2002
- 53rd of 65
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