Delta II launched the joint ISAS/NASA Geotail spacecraft from Cape Canaveral to study the structure and dynamics of Earth's magnetotail as part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics program, with NASA's DUVE ultraviolet experiment riding along on the second stage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 13 Delta II 6925 flights
- Date and time
- 24 July 1992, 14:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 6925
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1992-044
- Launches in 1992
- 45th of 97
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