Posts Tagged ‘Delta II’

Delta II successfully launches NPP satellite on behalf of NASA and NOAA

Friday, October 28th, 2011

The Delta II rocket has made what could be its final flight Friday, deploying a new weather and environmental research satellite for NASA and the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, along with six CubeSats. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California was on schedule at 09:48 UTC [...]

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Delta II passes FRR for next week’s NPP (NPOESS Preparatory Project) launch

Friday, October 21st, 2011

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch with the NPP (NPOESS Preparatory Project) satellite has passed through its Flight Readiness Review (FRR) on Friday. The launch from SLC-2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California has been set for a launch window which opens at 9:48am GMT on October 28.

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Delta II launches with moon-bound GRAIL spacecraft

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

The Delta II rocket has launched on its 150th flight on Saturday, departing from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 17 for the final time on the second of two launch opportunities – at 9:08am Eastern (13:08 UTC). The rocket is carrying NASA’s two GRAIL spacecraft, which will be used to study the Moon’s gravitational field.

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Twin GRAIL satellites ready for NASA lunar launch

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

With less than one week to go before the launch of the twin GRAIL lunar satellites from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, NASA has completed the pre-launch flight readiness reviews for both GRAIL and the veteran Delta II rocket which will propel the spacecrafts into their cruise to Earth’s only natural satellite.

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ULA Delta II launches with the SAC-D spacecraft

Friday, June 10th, 2011

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) have launched their Delta II rocket to loft the SAC-D spacecraft into orbit for the Argentine space agency, CONAE, on Friday. Launch occurred at the start of a five minute window opening at 14:20:13 UTC (07:20 local time), lifting off from Space Launch Complex 2W at the Vandenberg Air Force [...]

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Delta II finally launches with COSMO-4

Friday, November 5th, 2010

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle has finally launched at the fourth attempt, lofting COSMO-4 - the fourth and last COSMO-SkyMed radar imaging satellite – into orbit for the Italian government. The vehicle lifted-off at 7:20pm PDT from Space Launch Complex 2W at the Vandenberg Air Force Base. The mission marks the 350th launch of [...]

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ULA Delta II successfully launches with WISE

Monday, December 14th, 2009

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket (Delta 347) has launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base this morning carrying the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite for NASA. The launch occured at the start of a fourteen minute window, which opened at 6:09am Pacific (14:09 GMT).

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WorldView-2 launched via Delta II out of VAFB

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite has been launched atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket on Thursday morning. The launch, which took place from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA at 11:51 (local) – slightly delayed from the scheduled T-0 due to a battery issue on the vehicle’s second stage.

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ULA successfully launch STSS-Demo via Delta II

Friday, September 25th, 2009

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) launch of a Delta II rocket – carrying two STSS-Demo satellites for the US Missile Defense – has finally beaten the weather and launched at 8:20am local time from Cape Canaveral. Unless further launches are purchased, this will be the penultimate launch of a Delta II from Cape Canaveral.

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Last GPS IIR satellite launched on final SLC-17A Delta II

Monday, August 17th, 2009

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II has become the last rocket to lift off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 17A this morning, as it launched the twenty-first and last GPS IIR satellite for the US Air Force. The 2059-kilogram GPS IIR-21(M) satellite, also known as GPS IIRM-8, was deployed following a sixty-eight minute flight. [...]

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Delta II launches penultimate GPS-IIR satellite

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket has launched this morning, carrying GPS-IIR-20, the penultimate spacecraft of the current block of GPS satellites. Lift-off from Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral was on time, at the start of a window running from 08:34 to 08:49 GMT (04:34-04:49 EDT).

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Delta II launches with Kepler Planet-Finder Launch

Friday, March 6th, 2009

The Delta II launch team at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station have launched NASA’s new Kepler observatory, a telescope designed to search for Earth-like terrestrial planets in the Cygnus and Lyra constellations. The initial three and half year mission launched at 10:49pm. EST from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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ULA Delta II launches on third attempt with NASA’s NOAA-N Prime

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket has launched with the NASA NOAA-N Prime spacecraft at the third attempt to launch from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California – at 2:22am PST - following two scrubs due to technical issues.

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ULA Delta II launches with COSMO-3

Friday, October 24th, 2008

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle has launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) with COSMO-3, the third satellite of the COSMO-SkyMed (Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) constellation. Launch was on schedule at 10:28 pm EDT.

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