Delta II 7920-10 launched RADARSAT-1, the Canadian Space Agency's first Earth-observation satellite, from Vandenberg into a sun-synchronous orbit, where its synthetic-aperture radar monitored ice, agriculture, and coastlines for 17 years.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 9 Delta II 7920-10 flights
- Date and time
- 4 November 1995, 14:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7920-10
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1995-059
- Launches in 1995
- 65th of 80
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