Launched NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), an astrophysics observatory built to study rapid time variability in X-ray emission from black holes, neutron stars, and other compact objects.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 9 Delta II 7920-10 flights
- Date and time
- 30 December 1995, 13:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7920-10
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1995-074
- Launches in 1995
- 80th of 80
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