Delta 7420-10C | Globalstar 25,47,49,52

Name: Delta 7420-10C | Globalstar 25,47,49,52
Start: 1999-06-10T13:48:43Z
Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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.

Mission Details

Launch date: June 10, 1999 at 01:48 PM UTC
Launch vehicle: Delta II
Operator: United States Air Force
Launch site: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission type: Communications