Tag: Delta 4
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Live coverage: Delta 4 launches from California with spy satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Delta 4 rocket with the NROL-47 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ULA’s live broadcast of the Delta 4 launch begins at 12:40 p.m. PST (3:40 p.m. EST; 2040 GMT).
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Delta 4 rocket, clandestine spy satellite ready for liftoff from California
EDITOR’S NOTE: The launch has been delayed 24 hours to Thursday at approximately 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST; 2100 GMT) by gusty winds at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The mission patch for the NROL-47 mission. Credit: National Reconnaissance Office Technicians are putting the final touches on a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket set for…
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Classified payload hoisted atop Delta 4 rocket at Vandenberg
A clandestine satellite owned by the National Reconnaissance Office has been raised atop its United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for liftoff Jan. 10. Already encapsulated inside the Delta 4’s payload fairing, the spacecraft was recently transferred from a nearby processing facility and hoisted by a crane inside the…
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Delta 4 launch from California slips to January
File photo of a Delta 4 rocket standing on Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: ULA The launch of a top secret National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has been pushed back from Dec. 13 until no earlier than Jan. 10 to complete software validation…
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Photos: Additional shots of successful Delta 4 rocket launch
The 377th Delta rocket begins its journey to space carrying a military communications satellite funded by Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and New Zealand in a deal that gives the allies access to the U.S. military’s worldwide Wideband Global SATCOM system. Photos by Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images See earlier Delta 377 coverage.…
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Photos: Delta 4 powers from pad with international satellite
Launching the Wideband Global SATCOM 9 satellite purchased by allied nations in collaboration with the U.S. military’s worldwide communications network, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket thundered away from Cape Canaveral at 8:18 p.m. EDT (0018 GMT). Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier Delta 377 coverage. Our Delta archive.
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Video: Liftoff of Delta 4 rocket and WGS 9 satellite
The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket, standing 217 feet tall and weighing 900,000 pounds, unleashes 1.8 million pounds of thrust from its main engine and four side-mounted boosters at 8:18 p.m. EDT (0018 GMT) today to launch the ninth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite for U.S. military and allied communications. See earlier Delta 377 coverage.…
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Photos: Launch boosts satellite for U.S. allies
The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Medium+ (5,4) rocket lifted off at 8:18 p.m. EDT (0018 GMT) from Cape Canaveral in service to the U.S. military’s Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite constellation. Photos by Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now See earlier Delta 377 coverage. Our Delta archive.
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Internationally-backed military satellite successfully launched atop Delta 4 rocket
CAPE CANAVERAL — With an international flair for collaboration, a military communications satellite jointly purchased by five allies was rocketed in space Saturday to further expand the U.S.-operated network that serves battlefield forces anywhere on Earth. The Wideband Global SATCOM satellite No. 9, which will act like an information router in space, was successfully propelled…
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Photos: Launch pad 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. The 9-million-pound gantry was retracted the length of a football field in preparation for launch of the Air Force’s WGS 9 communications satellite into Earth orbit. Photo…