Tag: Complex 37
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Final ‘single stick’ Delta 4-Medium rocket arrives at Florida launch pad
The core of United Launch Alliance’s final Delta 4-Medium rocket rolled out to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37 launch pad May 28. Credit: United Launch Alliance Ground crews finished the initial build-up of the last “single stick” medium-lift variant of United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral last week in…
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Photos: Delta 4 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral
A hydrogen-fueled main engine and four solid rocket boosters combined to propel a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket off its launch pad at Cape Canaveral on March 15, successfully sending a U.S. Air Force communications satellite into orbit. The Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68A main engine and the four solid-fueled boosters, built by Northrop Grumman, generated…
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Delta 4 rocket launches Air Force’s 10th WGS broadband satellite
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rockets lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Friday with the U.S. Air Force’s tenth Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now United Launch Alliance placed a new satellite in orbit with a fiery Friday night blastoff from Cape Canaveral, using…
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Live coverage: Delta 4 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s tenth Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ULA’s live video coverage of the Delta 4 launch will begin March 15 at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT). We will…
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Photos: Mobile gantry retracted at Delta 4 launch pad
These photos show the 330-foot-tall mobile service tower moving into position for liftoff of a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37B launch pad Friday. The 218-foot-tall (66-meter) rocket is set for liftoff during a launch window opening at 6:56 p.m. EDT (2256 GMT) and extending to 9:05 p.m. EDT (0105 GMT). The mission’s…
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Delta 4 rocket’s launch timeline with WGS 10
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will deliver the U.S. Air Force’s tenth Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite to a supersynchronous transfer orbit around 37 minutes after lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff is scheduled during a launch window opening at 6:56 p.m. EDT (2256 GMT) Friday. The window extends to 9:05 p.m. EDT…
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ULA plans to ring in the weekend with Friday evening launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) on March 14 with new weather forecast. The Delta 4 rocket’s payload fairing, containing the U.S. Air Force’s WGS 10 communications satellites, is readied for mounting atop the launcher Feb. 26 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance ground…
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Military satellite joined with Delta 4 rocket at Cape Canaveral
Artist’s illustration of a Wideband Global SATCOM satellite in orbit. Credit: Boeing The addition of a U.S. Air Force communications satellite has capped the assembly of a 218-foot-tall (66-meter) United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket at Cape Canaveral set for liftoff the evening of March 13. The Air Force’s 10th Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite…
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Solar probe moves into launch position at Cape Canaveral
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Aug. 1 with Tory Bruno comments on Delta 4-Heavy. Nestled inside the nose cone of its Delta 4-Heavy launcher, Parker Solar Probe departs its processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer / kenkremer.com / spaceupclose.com NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, fueled and buttoned up for liftoff Aug. 11 on the first mission…
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Launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe rescheduled for Aug. 6
Parker Solar Probe sits inside a clean room at the Astrotech spacecraft processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman The launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, on the verge of kicking off a seven-year mission culminating in passages through the sun’s atmosphere, has been delayed to Aug. 6 to resolve a technical…