Delta II carried five Iridium satellites into low Earth orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, the first Iridium mission flown on Delta II after an earlier Iridium launch failure.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 17 Delta II 7920-10C flights
- Date and time
- 5 May 1997, 14:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7920-10C
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-020
- Launches in 1997
- 21st of 89
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: Iridium 4
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