GeoEye-1 launched from Vandenberg as, at the time, the world's highest-resolution commercial imaging satellite, providing 0.41 m panchromatic and 1.65 m multispectral imagery for GeoEye (later DigitalGlobe/Maxar).
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 14 Delta II 7420-10C flights
- Date and time
- 6 September 2008, 18:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7420-10C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2008-042
- Launches in 2008
- 44th of 69
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