Tag: Complex 37
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Timeline: Delta 4/WGS 8 launch events
Follow the Delta 4 rocket’s ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37 launch pad with the U.S. Air Force’s WGS 8 communications satellite. Liftoff is scheduled for Wednesday at 6:53 p.m. EST. T-00:05.0 Engine start The RS-68A main engine begins to ignite as the liquid hydrogen fuel valve is opened, creating a large fireball…
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Preview: Upgraded satellite for military communications to launch
A Delta 4 rocket will launch the WGS 8 satellite on Wednesday. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — The backbone of the U.S. military’s global communications network, relied upon by soldiers, ships, jets, aerial drones and allied nations around the world, will receive a new satellite with unprecedented capacity following its launch Wednesday atop…
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Favorable weather forecast for Wednesday’s Delta 4 launch from Florida
The Delta 4 will launch from Complex 37. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Air Force meteorologists are expecting good weather to launch the Delta 4 rocket with a military communications satellite Wednesday evening from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff of the United Launch Alliance booster carrying the Wideband Global SATCOM 8 spacecraft is scheduled to occur at…
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U.S. military communications satellite moved to pad for Dec. 7 launch into space
The eight WGS mission patches. Credit: Air Force logos; Spaceflight Now graphic CAPE CANAVERAL — The next satellite to launch from Cape Canaveral — an essential communications satellite for the U.S. military and allied nations — was moved to the pad and mounted atop its Delta 4 rocket today. The eighth Wideband Global SATCOM spacecraft…
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Delta 4 rocket undergoes launch day simulation for its next Air Force mission
Mission poster. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket went through a practice countdown and fueling exercise today to prepare for its Dec. 7 liftoff to deliver a U.S. military communications satellite into space. Today’s operation, an abbreviated version of a Wet Dress Rehearsal, saw the mobile service…
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Delta 4 rocket on the pad for military satellite launch in December
File photo of Delta 4 rollout. Credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now CAPE CANAVERAL — The Delta 4 rocket that will launch the U.S. military’s highest capacity communications satellite ever built was rolled to the pad this week. The two-stage booster moved from the Horizontal Integration Facility to the Complex 37B pad and erected on the launch…
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Video: Liftoff of Delta 4 with second GSSAP satellite duo
The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket, standing 206 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, unleashes 1.1 million pounds of thrust from its main engine and two side-mounted boosters at 12:52 a.m. EDT (0452 today to launch the GSSAP No. 3 and No. 4 satellites for the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program from Cape…
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Photos: Delta 4 lights up the sky for night owl launch
Launching the second pair of Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites for the U.S. military, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket thundered away from Cape Canaveral today at 12:52 a.m. EDT (0452 GMT). Photos by Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now See earlier Delta 375 coverage. Our Delta archive.
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Photos: Gantry retracted from Delta 4 rocket
The 330-foot tall mobile service tower is rolled away from the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s pad 37B in the hours before the scheduled liftoff on Aug. 19. The 9-million-pound gantry was retracted the length of a football field in preparation for launch of the GSSAP payload into Earth orbit for…
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Delta 4 successfully soars to the high ground to deploy two patrol satellites
CAPE CANAVERAL — The 375th Delta rocket doubled the size of the Air Force’s “neighborhood watch” program today with the successful launch and deployment of two surveillance satellites into the vast geosynchronous belt of spacecraft around the planet. Evolved from its humble beginnings 56 years ago to today’s modern Delta 4 rockets, the 206-foot-tall vehicle…