Tag: Delta 4
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Delta 4 rocket evolving to upgraded main engine
Credit: Carleton Bailie/Boeing CAPE CANAVERAL — When the next Delta 4 rocket flies in July, as well as all future ones to come, the enhanced RS-68A main engine will power the boosters off the launch pad. This week’s successful Delta 4 launch that put a new GPS satellite into orbit marked the final launch of…
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Photos: More shots of Delta 4 liftoff
The 721,000-pound United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket launches on-time at 2:36 p.m. EDT into a deck of low-hanging clouds over Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite. Credit: ULA
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Video: Delta 4 lifts off
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket was launched on-time today at 2:36 p.m. EDT carrying a new Global Positioning System spacecraft to advance the navigation network with every launch.
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Live coverage: Delta 4 rocket launches with GPS satellite
Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket with a new Global Positioning System satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Recap story: New bird flies for GPS navigation network
Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Climbing away from Earth on the power of its liquid hydrogen-fueled main engine and twin solid rockets, a Delta 4 booster successfully launched a new Global Positioning System satellite Wednesday to benefit U.S. military operations and civilian society as a whole. “This thing called GPS is such a treasure to…
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Photos: Delta 4’s foggy launch
The 721,000-pound United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket launches on-time at 2:36 p.m. EDT into a deck of low-hanging clouds over Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite. Credit: Tim Dodd Photography
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Photos: Delta 4 awaits blastoff
The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket sits peacefully inside its mobile service gantry on Tuesday afternoon, one day before its scheduled launch of the GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite. Credit: Justin Ray Credit: Justin Ray Credit: Tim Dodd Credit: Tim Dodd Credit: Tim Dodd
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Preview: 10 months, 4 launches to finish GPS Block 2F deployment
Credit: Boeing CAPE CANAVERAL — The final year of launches in the current breed of Global Positioning System navigation satellites kicks off Wednesday afternoon aboard a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral. GPS 2F-9 is slated for liftoff during a window of 2:36 to 2:54 p.m. EDT and will follow a flight azimuth of…
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Photos: Next GPS satellite readied for launch
The U.S. Air Force’s ninth Global Positioning System (GPS) 2F satellite, GPS 2F-9, is encapsulated in the Delta 4 rocket’s four-meter-diameter nose cone at a processing facility and then moved to the launch pad at Complex 37 for mating to its booster inside the mobile service tower. Launch is March 25 at 2:36 p.m. EDT…
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Delta 4-Heavy selected for launch of solar probe
File photo of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket launch in June 2012. Credit: ULA A NASA spacecraft that will fly closer to the sun than any mission before will launch on a Delta 4-Heavy rocket in 2018, requiring a boost from the largest active launcher in the U.S. inventory and repeated flybys around Venus to reach…