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United Launch Alliance (ULA)<\/strong>‘s Delta program, spanning 60 years, came to a close with the launch of the final Delta IV Heavy rocket by on April 9 at 12:53 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The rocket, carrying the NROL-70<\/strong><\/strong> mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, marks the end of the Delta era and initiates the future of heavy lift on ULA\u2019s next-generation <\/strong>Vulcan<\/strong> rocket.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you to our teammates past and present for their dedication to these critical national security missions,\u201d said Gary Wentz<\/strong>, ULA vice president of Government and Commercial Programs. \u201cThe Delta IV Heavy rocket was a workhorse for the NRO, launching 12 missions delivering critical national security payloads. The NROL-70 mission marked our 35th successful launch with the NRO and we look forward to continuing our partnership launching future national security space missions.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Delta rocket played a pivotal role in the evolution of space flight since the 1960s,\u201d said Tory Bruno<\/strong>, ULA\u2019s president and CEO. \u201cThis final Delta mission signals ULA\u2019s evolution to the new Vulcan rocket, providing even higher performance than our three-core Delta IV Heavy rocket in a single-core rocket to launch heavy-class missions for the nation. We will continue to deliver our superior reliability and unprecedented orbital precision for all our customers across the national security, civil, and commercial markets.\u201d<\/p>\n ULA\u2019s next launch is the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission for <\/strong>Boeing<\/strong>\u2019s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew program. The launch is planned for no earlier than May 6, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" United Launch Alliance (ULA)‘s Delta program, spanning 60 years, came to a close with the launch of the final Delta IV Heavy rocket by on April 9 at 12:53 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The rocket, carrying the NROL-70 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, marks the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,54,20],"class_list":["post-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-launch-vehicle-platforms","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}