Launched five Iridium satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base aboard a Delta II 7920, continuing buildout of the Iridium low-Earth-orbit constellation for global mobile satellite phone and paging service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 17 Delta II 7920-10C flights
- Date and time
- 8 September 1998, 21:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7920-10C
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-051
- Launches in 1998
- 55th of 82
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