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United States Air ForceLaunch SuccessfulCommunicationsDelta 7420-10C
Launched 2000-02-08 21:24 UTCSpace Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Worldwide
8th
orbital launch attempt in 2000
United States Air Force
1st
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 17B
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
175 d 16 h
since the pad's previous launch
The Globalstar global mobile communications network offers global, digital real time voice, data and fax via a constellation of 48 minisatellites. The constellation operates in a 1410 km orbit inclined at 52 degrees, and will also have 8 spares. The satellites were built by Space Systems Loral and Alenia Aerospazio in Rome, Italy.
Launch Provider
Government · United States of America · Founded 1947 · Commander-in-Chief President of the US
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.
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Height
39m
Diameter
2.4m
Liftoff thrust
3,020kN
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