Carried the Inmarsat 2-F2 satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit, expanding Inmarsat's maritime and aeronautical mobile communications coverage over the Atlantic Ocean region.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 13 Delta II 6925 flights
- Date and time
- 8 March 1991, 23:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 6925
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-018
- Launches in 1991
- 18th of 91
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