MESSENGER

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

06:15:56

Tuesday August 3, 2004

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

MESSENGER

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Messenger (stylized as MESSENGER, a backronym for "MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging"; the name is a reference to the messenger deity of the same name from Roman mythology) was a NASA robotic spacecraft that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015.

Heliocentric Orbit

1 Payload

1,108 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Delta II 7925H

Active 2003 to 2007

United Launch Alliance logo

Manufacturer

ULA

Rocket

Height: 38.1m

Payload to Orbit

GTO: 2,171 kg

Liftoff Thrust

4,398 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 2.9m

Height: 8.49m

Stages

3

Strap-ons

9

Launch Site

SLC-17B

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

20 days 2 hours

Stats

Delta II


115th

Mission

5th

Mission of 2004

2004


30th

Orbital launch attempt