Launched NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE), an Origins-program space telescope built by Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, from Cape Canaveral into a roughly 754 x 769 km orbit to study the universe in far-ultraviolet light.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 6 Delta II 7320 flights
- Date and time
- 24 June 1999, 15:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7320
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1999-035
- Launches in 1999
- 36th of 78
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