Delta II launched NASA's GLAST gamma-ray observatory from Cape Canaveral into low Earth orbit; the spacecraft was renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope two months later in honor of physicist Enrico Fermi and became the most sensitive gamma-ray telescope yet flown.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 2 Delta II 7920H-10C flights
- Date and time
- 11 June 2008, 16:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7920H-10C
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2008-029
- Launches in 2008
- 29th of 69
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