Delta II Lifts Air Force Navigational Satellite into Orbit
Photo by Carleton Bailie © The Boeing Company
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| Delta II Lifts Air Force Navigational Satellite into Orbit
Photo by Carleton Bailie © The Boeing Company |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan. 30, 2001 — A Boeing Delta II rocket fired up the night sky to launch a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigational satellite into space. Liftoff occurred at 2:55 a.m. EST. Twenty-five minutes later, the satellite was placed into an elliptical orbit almost 11,000 miles above the Earth. |
