Delta II | Icesat

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: United States Air Force (Government)
• Rocket: Delta II 7320 — Delta family

Mission

Oceanography, gravimetry, altimetry mission.

• Type: Earth Science
• Orbit: Polar Orbit (PO)

Launch Site

• Pad: Space Launch Complex 2W
• Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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Program

• 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. (Wikipedia)