Delta II launched the first four Globalstar satellites from Cape Canaveral, the initial deployment for Loral and Qualcomm's planned 48-satellite mobile phone constellation, ahead of a September 1998 Zenit failure that later delayed the network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 14 Delta II 7420-10C flights
- Date and time
- 14 February 1998, 14:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7420-10C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-008
- Launches in 1998
- 9th of 82
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