Launch
Two demonstration satellites were launched together on a single Delta II launch vehicle. Launch took place September 25, 2009, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17. One of the two satellites had been shipped to Cape Canaveral May 4, 2009; the second satellite arrived at the launch site on June 25, 2009. It was reported that several items of debris, identified by amateur satellite watchers as remnants of the Delta-2 launch vehicle, had crashed in a field in Mongolia on the February 19, 2010.
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