Launched NASA's Global Geospace Science Polar satellite to study Earth's polar magnetosphere and auroral activity from a highly elliptical orbit; it operated until 2008.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 Delta II 7925-10 flights
- Date and time
- 24 February 1996, 11:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925-10
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1996-013
- Launches in 1996
- 14th of 77
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