X-Nico

unusual facts about Delta II



GeoEye-1

It was rescheduled for launch August 22, 2008 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II launch vehicle.

Science and technology in South Africa

1999, 23 February - SUNSAT, the first South African produced satellite was put in orbit by an American Delta II launch vehicle.

X-ray astronomy satellites

The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Polar Satellite was a NASA science spacecraft launched at 06:23:59.997 EST on February 24, 1996 aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta II 7925-10 rocket from launch pad 2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California, to observe the Earth's polar magnetosphere.


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