Launched the Thor 3 direct-broadcast communications satellite for Telenor from Cape Canaveral. Built by Hughes as an HS-376HP, it was placed into geostationary transfer orbit to serve Scandinavia.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 26 Delta II 7925-9.5 flights
- Date and time
- 10 June 1998, 00:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925-9.5
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-035
- Launches in 1998
- 36th of 82
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