Launched a quartet of Globalstar low Earth orbit communications satellites from Cape Canaveral, the third Delta II mission to build out the Globalstar mobile telephony constellation, preceding a follow-up quad launch one month later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 14 Delta II 7420-10C flights
- Date and time
- 10 June 1999, 13:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7420-10C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-031
- Launches in 1999
- 32nd of 78
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