Delivered a quartet of Globalstar low Earth orbit satellites to Cape Canaveral's growing mobile-telephony constellation, bringing the total number of Globalstar spacecraft on orbit to 32 as the system neared operational capacity.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 14 Delta II 7420-10C flights
- Date and time
- 25 July 1999, 07:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7420-10C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-041
- Launches in 1999
- 43rd of 78
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