Delta II launched NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission carrying the Sojourner rover and the Carl Sagan Memorial Station lander on a seven-month cruise to Mars, where it airbag-landed in Ares Vallis on July 4, 1997.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 880 kg
- Flight
- 30th
- of 36 Delta II 7925 flights
- Date and time
- 4 December 1996, 06:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1996-068
- Launches in 1996
- 72nd of 77
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