Delta II 7925A launched NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. One solar array failed to fully latch during deployment, but the spacecraft still reached Mars in September 1997 to begin a multi-year mapping mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 29th
- of 36 Delta II 7925 flights
- Date and time
- 7 November 1996, 17:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1996-062
- Launches in 1996
- 66th of 77
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