{"id":12988,"date":"2019-08-22T23:13:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-final-single-stick-delta-4-rocket-lifts-off-from-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2019-08-22T23:13:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:13:25","slug":"photos-final-single-stick-delta-4-rocket-lifts-off-from-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-final-single-stick-delta-4-rocket-lifts-off-from-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Final \u201csingle stick\u201d Delta 4 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last Delta 4-Medium rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Thursday with a GPS navigation satellite for the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>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 thrust.<\/p>\n<p>The engine and booster nozzles vectored their thrust to steer the Delta 4 rocket northeast from Cape Canaveral, aligning its trajectory with one of six orbital planes in the GPS navigation satellite network some 12,550 miles (20,200 kilometers) above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s launch was the 40th flight of a Delta 4 rocket since November 2002, and the 29th and final mission to use one of ULA\u2019s Delta 4-Medium variants, which use a single first stage core. At least five more launches by ULA\u2019s Delta 4-Heavy rocket, made of three Delta 4 first stage booster cores, are planned through late 2023.<\/p>\n<p>See our Mission Status Center for updates on the mission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40398\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40398\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-1-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40399\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40399\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-2-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40400\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40400\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EClDrTnXoAAjzy8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EClDrTnXoAAjzy8.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EClDrTnXoAAjzy8-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EClDrTnXoAAjzy8-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EClDrTnXoAAjzy8-678x452.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40401\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40401\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-3-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40402\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40402\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-4.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-4-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40403\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40403\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-5.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GPS_final-5-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last Delta 4-Medium rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Thursday with a GPS navigation satellite for the U.S. Air Force. 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