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The Boeing Delta II launch vehicle consists of three stages stacked on top of each other, plus 9 small solid-fuel rockets strapped to the outside of the firs...
Nominal Thrust: 9,753 lbs. Specifc Impulse: 320.5 seconds. Fuel/Oxidizer: Aerozine 50/N204. Length: 105.6 in. Diameter (nozzle extension): 60.33 in. Weight: 275 lbs. Depending on payload requirements, the Delta II series of launch vehicles offered an optional spin-stabilized third-stage motor. The flight-proven long nozzle Star 48B motor was ...
- February 1989
- 510,000 lbs | 231,000 kg
- 128 ft | 39 m
- 155
A Delta II launch vehicle launches from Cape Canaveral carrying the Dawn spacecraft. 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 ("Lite" and ...
SPACEFLIGHT NOW. Posted: March 26, 2000. VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A NASA satellite built to see Earth's invisible magnetosphere was trucked into orbit on Saturday by a Boeing Delta...
Posted: November 21, 2000. Click the button to receive our live streaming broadcast from Vandenberg Air Force Base as the Boeing Delta 2 rocket launches the NASA's Earth Observing 1...
May 17, 2001 · Officials have announced the rescheduled launch of the GeoLITE. spacecraft on a Boeing Delta II for Friday, May 18 with a 79-minute. launch window opening at 1:07 p.m. and closing at 2:26...
Nov 22, 2000 · Launch timeline - Chart with times and descriptions of events to occur during the launch. Orbit trace - A map shows the launch track for the mission. Delta 2 rocket - Overview of the...
