Boeing's Delta IV Medium, on only its third flight, deployed the U.S. Air Force's DSCS III B6 satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral, completing deployment of the Defense Satellite Communications System constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Delta IV M flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 2003, 23:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV M
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2003-040
- Launches in 2003
- 40th of 63
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