Launched NASA's Stardust spacecraft on a mission to fly through the coma of comet 81P/Wild 2, collect cometary and interstellar dust samples in aerogel, and return them to Earth, which it did successfully in January 2006.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 385 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Delta II 7426-9.5 flight
- Date and time
- 7 February 1999, 21:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7426-9.5
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1999-003
- Launches in 1999
- 3rd of 78
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