Launched NASA/USGS/NOAA's Landsat 7 Earth-observation satellite, carrying the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus imager, into sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg AFB to continue the Landsat program's land-imaging record.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 9 Delta II 7920-10 flights
- Date and time
- 15 April 1999, 18:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7920-10
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1999-020
- Launches in 1999
- 20th of 78
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