Launched NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer from Cape Canaveral. The multi-wavelength observatory was built to detect and rapidly study gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows across gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet and optical wavelengths.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 6 Delta II 7320-10C flights
- Date and time
- 20 November 2004, 17:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7320-10C
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2004-047
- Launches in 2004
- 48th of 54
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