Launched WGS-3 (USA-211), the third and final Block I Wideband Global SATCOM satellite for the US Air Force, on the maiden flight of the Delta IV Medium+(5,4) configuration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.8 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 8 Delta IV M+(5,4) flights
- Date and time
- 6 December 2009, 01:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV M+(5,4)
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2009-068
- Launches in 2009
- 71st of 78
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