Dual-payload launch from Vandenberg deployed NASA's ICESat to measure polar ice sheet elevation, clouds, and land topography, alongside the CHIPSat ultraviolet spectrometer studying the local interstellar medium.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 6 Delta II 7320 flights
- Date and time
- 13 January 2003, 00:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7320
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2003-002
- Launches in 2003
- 2nd of 63
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