Delta·McDonnell Douglas
Delta II 6920-8
retired
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Specifications
- Status
- retired
- Height
- 39 m
- Diameter
- 2.44 m
- Mass
- 219,000 kg
- Stages
- 3
- Thrust
- 3,790 kN
- First flight
- 1990-02-14
- Total launches
- 1
- Success / Fail
- 1 / 0
Delta II was an expendable launch system, originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas. Delta II was part of the Delta rocket family and entered service in 1989. Delta II vehicles included the Delta 6000, and the two later Delta 7000 variants ("Light" and "Heavy"). The rocket flew its final mission ICESat-2 on 15 September 2018, earning the launch vehicle a streak of 100 successful missions in a row, with the last failure being GPS IIR-1 in 1997.
Propulsion
First stage
RS-27A1,054 kN
RP-1 / LOX · gas-generator
RocketdyneIsp 302s (vac)since 1990
Second stage
AJ-1043 kN
NTO / Aerozine-50 · pressure-fed
Aerojet RocketdyneIsp 319s (vac)since 1962
Payloads it launched
2 loaded