Redeployed Indonesia's Palapa-B2 satellite as Palapa-B2R after it was stranded in a useless orbit by a 1984 perigee kick motor failure and retrieved by Space Shuttle mission STS-51-A; refurbished and relaunched to geostationary orbit from Cape Canaveral.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Delta II 6925-8 flight
- Date and time
- 13 April 1990, 22:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 6925-8
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-034
- Launches in 1990
- 36th of 121
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