ROSAT

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Astrophysics

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 17A Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

X-ray observatory developed by German, the United States and the United Kingdom

Delta II

Family:
Configuration: 6920-10

Delta II was an expendable launch system, originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas. Delta II was part of the Delta rocket family and entered service in 1989. Delta II vehicles included the Delta 6000, and the two later Delta 7000 variants ("Light" and "Heavy"). The rocket flew its final mission ICESat-2 on 15 September 2018, earning the launch vehicle a streak of 100 successful missions in a row, with the last failure being GPS IIR-1 in 1997.

Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    39.0 m
  • Diameter
    2.44 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    2.44 m
  • Launch Mass
    219.0 T
  • Thrust
    3790.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Delta II
  • Family
  • Variant
    6920-10
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Delta II 6920-10
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

McDonnell Douglas

McDonnell Douglas

(MDC)

Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

WIKI

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Space Launch Complex 17A


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Success
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Falcon 9
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Falcon 9
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