United Launch Alliance’s penultimate Delta IV Heavy rocket took flight on the NROL-68 mission Thursday, lofting a secretive payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Liftoff, from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral, is expected at 05:18 AM EDT (10:18 UTC). The mission was set to launch on Wednesday before ULA scrubbed the attempt due to an issue with a ground system pneumatic valve.
With the arrival of SLS and Orion at Pad-B on March 18, engineers and technicians…
On December 14, 2006, a Delta II rocket launched from VAFB (Vandenberg Air Force Base)…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has recently made pad upgrades to Space Launch Complex-6 (SLC-6) at…
United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket successfully launched a classified National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)…
SpaceX has conducted the first polar launch from Florida since 1969. On board the Falcon…
Development and flight qualification for United Launch Alliance’s new rocket, Vulcan, remains on track and…
United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) Delta IV Heavy rocket has received its clandestine payload for the…
Hurricane Dorian passed 129 km (80 miles) east of the Kennedy Space Center and Cape…
United Launch Alliance deployed the tenth Wideband Global Satcom satellite for the US Air Force…
A mission nearly 60 years in the making has launched on a historic flight to…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is in its final, home-stretch of processing prior to its scheduled…
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have attached the Parker…
United Launch Alliance’s first Delta IV launch of 2017 carried a Wideband Global Satcom spacecraft…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a Delta IV rocket on Wednesday evening, carrying the…
Up to 15 orbital launches are set to take place during a very busy December,…
Numerous launch facilities at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Cape Canaveral avoided serious impact…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched a Delta IV rocket in the early hours of…
SpaceX’s next mission is moving into the business end of its pre-launch flow with the…
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket beat the weather and launched a…
