A Delta II 7320-10C launched NOAA-N Prime (later NOAA-19) from Vandenberg, the last of NOAA's classic polar-orbiting weather satellites, carrying improved imaging and sounding instruments for weather forecasting and environmental monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 6 Delta II 7320-10C flights
- Date and time
- 6 February 2009, 10:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7320-10C
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2009-005
- Launches in 2009
- 5th of 78
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