Delta II current info

Sixty minutes to launch. The Delta rocket will be flying in its configuration known as the 7420-10 vehicle. The two-stage launcher is fitted with four strap-on solid-propellant motors and a 10-foot diameter composite nose cone.
After quickly climbing away from its coastal pad, the rocket will soar southward over the Pacific Ocean. The four solid boosters burn out and separate less than 90 seconds into the flight about 15 nautical miles up, leaving the kerosene-powered main engine to continue pushing the rocket to an altitude of 60 miles. The spent stage then jettisons to let the hydrazine-fueled second stage ignite.
Within 12 minutes, the vehicle settles into an initial 100 x 348 nautical mile parking orbit along a trajectory the cruises above the South Pacific before crossing Antarctica and then proceeding northbound toward Africa. The second stage reignites its engine for 12 seconds over Madagascar to reach a near-circular polar orbit of 335 x 341 nautical miles (385 x 392 statute miles) above the planet.