Launched the Thor 2 direct-broadcast satellite for Norway's Telenor, built by Hughes on the HS-376HP bus with 15 Ku-band transponders to provide TV and telephony/data services across Scandinavia and northern Europe.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 32nd
- of 36 Delta II 7925 flights
- Date and time
- 20 May 1997, 22:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-025
- Launches in 1997
- 27th of 89
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