Delta 2 rocket Launch from Vandenberg with WORLDVIEW-2

October 8, 2009 - Vandenberg Air Force Base.
A Delta 2 rocket successfully delivered DigitalGlobes WorldView-2 commercial satellite into orbit after launching the spacecraft from Space Launch Complex-2 at 11:51 a.m. PDT here today. United Launch Alliance provided the launch services for this mission on behalf of Boeing Launch Services. Delta II rockets previously launched both the Quickbird-2 mission in October 2001 and the WorldView-1 mission in September 2007 for DigitalGlobe.
After a nominal approximately one-hour flight, the WorldView-2 spacecraft was successfully deployed into its proper orbit. WorldView-2 was placed in a sun-synchronous orbit where the spacecraft will perform its mission of collecting high resolution commercial digital Earth imagery from space.
This was ULAs seventh Delta II launch of 2009 and 12th overall launch of the year. ULA began processing the Delta 2 launch vehicle in Decatur, Ala., two years ago. Hundreds of ULA employees worked to prepare the vehicle for the WorldView-2 mission.
For WorldView-2, the ULA Delta 2 / 7920-10 configuration vehicle featured a first stage booster powered by a Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne RS-27A main engine and nine Alliant Techsystems (ATK) strap-on solid rocket motors. An Aerojet AJ10-118K engine powered the second stage. The payload was encased by a 10-foot-diameter payload fairing.

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[thewody]

could have done without the fake countdown...