Delta II carrying the first GPS Block IIR navigation satellite exploded 13 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral when a solid rocket motor casing cracked, destroying the vehicle and its $40 million payload -- the only total launch failure in the Delta II program's history.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 31st
- of 36 Delta II 7925 flights
- Date and time
- 17 January 1997, 16:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- Launches in 1997
- 2nd of 89