Launched NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) toward the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point to measure solar wind, energetic particles, and galactic cosmic rays, providing early warning of geomagnetic storms.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- L1-point
- Sun-Earth L1
- Payload to orbit
- 785 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Delta II 7920-8 flight
- Date and time
- 25 August 1997, 14:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7920-8
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1997-045
- Launches in 1997
- 47th of 89
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