Successful First Launch for Boeing Delta IV
Photo by Carleton Bailie © The Boeing Company
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,
Fla., Nov. 20, 2002 — In
a spectacular evening launch today, the first flight of the Boeing [NYSE:
BA] Delta IV family of rockets successfully delivered the commercial telecommunications
satellite W5 for Eutelsat S.A.
The Delta IV lifted off at 5:39 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37B,
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Approximately 37 minutes after liftoff,
the rocket deployed the W5 spacecraft to a geosynchronous transfer orbit
with a perigee of 539 kilometers above the Earth.
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