Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A launched ESA’s GEOS-2, a geostationary scientific satellite studying Earth’s magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind; it was the qualification model flown after GEOS-1 missed GEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 575 kg
- Flight
- 26th
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 14 July 1978, 10:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1978-071
- Launches in 1978
- 73rd of 128
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