Sep 8 1998
From The Space Library
Boeing successfully launched, from a California launch site, five satellites for the Iridium World Communications network, aboard a Delta II rocket. The Delta II launched two weeks after the "disastrous maiden flight" of the new Delta III rocket, which had exploded during liftoff. Officials announced on 5 September that a problem with the rocket's control system had caused the explosion, but that they had not yet determined the exact chain of events. The five satellites launched aboard the Delta II rocket replaced satellites that had malfunctioned and could not be included in the Iridium telecommunications constellation.
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