Delta II | Icesat
Space Launch Complex 2W
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.
Delta II 7320
Height 38.90 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 0 kN
Diameter 2.44 Meters
Mass To LEO 2800 kg
Liftoff Mass 168 Tonnes
Launch Success 6
Consecutive Success 6
Maiden Flight 1999-06-24
Launch Failures 0
Programs
NASA Large Strategic Science Missions
NASA's large strategic science missions or large strategic missions, formerly known as Flagship missions or Flagship-class missions, are the costliest and most capable NASA science spacecraft. Flagship missions exist within all four divisions of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD): the astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science divisions.
