Tag: Delta 4
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Kennedy Space Center braces for Hurricane Dorian
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Space Launch System’s Mobile Launcher stands on launch pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This aerial photo was taken June 28 shortly after the tower arrived at pad 39B for a series of ground tests following rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building, seen in…
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Photos: ULA’s Delta 4-Medium flies for the last time
The last flight of United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4-Medium rocket lifted off Aug. 22 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, riding more than 1.2 million pounds of thrust from a hydrogen-fueled main engine and two strap-on solid rocket motors. The Delta 4 rocket climbed away from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37 launch pad at…
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ULA’s last Delta 4-Medium rocket set for launch Thursday
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Medium rocket, fitted with two solid rocket boosters, stands ready for launch Thursday at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37 launch pad. Credit: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance is set to retire part of its rocket family Thursday with the final flight of the Delta 4 rocket’s “single stick” configuration, a…
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Live coverage: Delta 4 rocket lifts off with GPS satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s GPS 3 SV02 navigation satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ULA’s live video coverage of the Delta 4 launch will begin Aug. 22 at 8:40 a.m. EDT (1240 GMT). We will have…
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Photos: Final “single stick” Delta 4 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral
The last Delta 4-Medium rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Thursday with a GPS navigation satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The 207-foot-tall (63-meter) rocket launched from pad 37 at 9:06 a.m. EDT (1306 GMT), powered by a hydrogen-fueled RS-68A main engine and two strap-on solid rocket boosters producing more than 1.2 million pounds of…
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Delta 4 rocket’s launch timeline with GPS 3 SV02
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will deliver the U.S. Air Force’s second GPS 3-series navigation satellite into an elliptical transfer orbit nearly two hours after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff is scheduled during a launch window opening at 9:00:30 a.m. EDT (1300:30 GMT) Thursday. The window extends to 9:27 a.m. EDT (1327 GMT).…
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Five more Delta 4-Heavy flights in ULA backlog after final “single stick” launch
A Delta 4 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral at 9:06 a.m. EDT (1306 GMT) Thursday with a GPS navigation satellite. Credit: United Launch Alliance The last Delta 4 launcher to fly in a single-core configuration rumbled into space Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral with a GPS navigation satellite, leaving United Launch Alliance with five…
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ULA’s second launch of the month scheduled for Thursday
The payload fairing for this week’s Delta 4 launch is stacked on top of the launch vehicle on pad 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: United Launch Alliance Weather forecasters expect a 70 percent chance of favorable conditions at Cape Canaveral for liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket Thursday…
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GPS satellite installed atop Delta 4 launcher
The Delta 4 rocket’s payload fairing, with the GPS satellite inside, rolls toward Cape Canaveral’s Complex 37 launch pad. Credit: United Launch Alliance The U.S. Air Force’s next GPS navigation satellite met its ride into space this week with the spacecraft’s bolting on top of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket at Cape Canaveral…
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Delta 4 launch delayed as ULA probes supplier concern
File photo of a Delta 4 rocket on its launch pad before a previous mission at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: United Launch Alliance Concerns over an unspecified part flying on the upper stages of United Launch Alliance’s rockets have delayed the launch of a GPS satellite on a Delta 4 booster from…