Delta II launched DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 commercial Earth-imaging satellite from Vandenberg into sun-synchronous orbit, expanding DigitalGlobe's high-resolution imagery constellation after WorldView-1 and QuickBird-2.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 17 Delta II 7920-10C flights
- Date and time
- 8 October 2009, 18:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7920-10C
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2009-055
- Launches in 2009
- 58th of 78
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