Launched NASA's Deep Space 1 probe, the first mission under the New Millennium program, to test high-risk technologies including an ion engine and autonomous navigation; it later flew past asteroid 9969 Braille and comet Borrelly.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 511 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Delta II 7326-9.5 flights
- Date and time
- 24 October 1998, 12:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7326-9.5
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1998-061
- Launches in 1998
- 66th of 82
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