First operational flight of the Delta IV Heavy, carrying DSP-23, the final Defense Support Program missile-early-warning satellite for the U.S. Air Force, from Cape Canaveral; spacecraft separation confirmed mission success.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.3 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 16 Delta IV Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 11 November 2007, 01:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2007-054
- Launches in 2007
- 57th of 68
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