Delta II 7925 launched the UK Ministry of Defence's Skynet 4D military communications satellite from Cape Canaveral into geostationary transfer orbit, the first of an enhanced trio of Skynet 4 spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 26 Delta II 7925-9.5 flights
- Date and time
- 10 January 1998, 00:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925-9.5
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-002
- Launches in 1998
- 2nd of 82
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