Delivered the NOAA-N (NOAA-18) polar-orbiting weather satellite to sun-synchronous orbit for NOAA, launching from Vandenberg AFB's SLC-2W aboard a Delta II Med-Lite vehicle.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 6 Delta II 7320-10C flights
- Date and time
- 20 May 2005, 10:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7320-10C
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2005-018
- Launches in 2005
- 18th of 56
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