Launch Details
Updated: 2:30 pm ET February 18, 2009
IRIDIUM 10 / Delta 7920-10
The Boeing Company successfully launched a Delta II launch vehicle on 08 September 1998, at 21:13 UTC. The Delta II was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Califormia, and carried five IRIDIUM satellites to low earth orbit. The completed IRIDIUM system will consist of 66 spacecraft plus six on-orbit spares and will be a satellite-based, global wireless communications network. Reportedly, 72 operational satellites are on orbit.
2:30 pm ET February 18, 2009