Deployed COSMO-SkyMed 2, the second of four Italian dual-use X-band synthetic aperture radar Earth-observation satellites for the Italian Space Agency and Ministry of Defence, into sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 14 Delta II 7420-10C flights
- Date and time
- 9 December 2007, 02:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7420-10C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2007-059
- Launches in 2007
- 62nd of 68
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