Maiden flight of the Delta IV Heavy from Cape Canaveral, carrying a boilerplate DemoSat payload plus two small 3CS satellites. Cavitation in the liquid-oxygen feed lines triggered early engine shutdown, leaving DemoSat in a lower-than-planned orbit and stranding the 3CS satellites.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 16 Delta IV Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 21 December 2004, 21:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2004-050
- Launches in 2004
- 51st of 54
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