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Delta II 7420-10C

McDonnell Douglas · Delta · RETIRED

Delta II 7420-10C is an expendable launch vehicle built by McDonnell Douglas. It stands 39.0 m tall, first flew on 14 February 1998. It has flown 8 times with 8 successes, a success rate of 100.0%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.

Specification

Vehicle spec sheet

ON FILE
Height39.0 m
Diameter2.4 m
Payload to LEONOT ON FILE
Payload to GTONOT ON FILE
Maiden flight14 February 1998
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch costNOT ON FILE
StatusRETIRED

As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.

Flight record

Reliability

ON RECORD
Total flights8
Successful8
Failed0
Success rate100.0%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0
Variant7420-10C

About Delta II

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.

Upcoming flights

Manifest

EMPTY

Delta II is retired, and no flight is filed.

All upcoming launches

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

KSC-06pd0696
KSC-06pd0696NASA / KSC · public domainNASA ↗
Delta II 7420 on Launch Pad SLC-2W
Delta II 7420 on Launch Pad SLC-2WBill Ingalls · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗
Delta II 7420-10C rocket launching CALIPSO and CloudSat
Delta II 7420-10C rocket launching CALIPSO and CloudSatBoeing/Thom Baur · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗

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Common questions

How many times has Delta II 7420-10C flown?
8 times, with 8 successes and 0 failures.
What is Delta II 7420-10C's success rate?
100.0%. That's 8 successful flights out of 8 attempts.
How much can Delta II 7420-10C lift to orbit?
Launch Library 2 doesn't list a payload figure for Delta II 7420-10C.
Is Delta II 7420-10C reusable?
No. Launch Library 2 lists Delta II 7420-10C as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.