NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

IMAGE

Launch Time
Sat Mar 25, 2000 20:34 UTC

Rocket

Delta II 7326
Image Credit: ULA
Boeing
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 2,533 kN
Payload to GTO: 934 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 3
Rocket Height: 38.1 m
Fairing Diameter: 2.9 m
Fairing Height: 8.49 m

Mission Details

IMAGE

IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) is a NASA Medium Explorers mission that studied the global response of the Earth's magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 210.0 kg
Polar Orbit

Location

SLC-2W, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA

Stats

2000

19th orbital launch attempt

Delta II

89th mission
2nd mission of 2000
87th successful mission
34th consecutive successful mission