Delta II launched the two STSS Demo satellites for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, space-based sensors designed to track ballistic missiles from low Earth orbit as part of the layered Ballistic Missile Defense System.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 15th
- of 17 Delta II 7920-10C flights
- Date and time
- 25 September 2009, 12:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7920-10C
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2009-052
- Launches in 2009
- 55th of 78
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