WMAP

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 30 June 2001, 07:46 pm UTC

Rocket: Delta II (Delta)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Planetary Science

Orbit: Sun-Earth L2

Pad: Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

MAP was to measure fluctuations in the cosmic 3 Kelvin microwave background with the degree of precision required to answer questions about the big bang and the total mass and fate of the universe.