Successful First Launch for Boeing Delta IV
Photo by Thom Baur © The Boeing Company
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,
Fla., Nov. 20, 2002 — In
a spectacular evening launch today, the first flight of the Boeing 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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