
Launched NASA's THEMIS mission, five identical probes designed to pinpoint where and when substorms begin in Earth's magnetosphere by flying in coordinated elliptical orbits.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 675 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Delta II 7925-10C flight
- Date and time
- 17 February 2007, 23:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925-10C
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2007-004
- Launches in 2007
- 5th of 68
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