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The Delta rocket family was a versatile range of American rocket-powered expendable launch systems that provided space launch capability in the United States from 1960 to 2024. Japan also launched license-built derivatives ( N-I , N-II , and H-I ) from 1975 to 1992.
This is a list of launches made by the PGM-17 Thor IRBM, and its derivatives, including the Delta family and the Japanese N-I, N-II and H-I rockets which were based on license-produced components. Due to the number of launches, it has been split by decade:
This followed the retirement of Delta II in 2018 and single-stick (non-Heavy) variants of the Delta IV in 2019. With the start of 2024, Vulcan Centaur took its first flight in time to maintain continuity of ULA's service in the heavy-lift launch vehicle market before the Delta IV Heavy program came to an end three months later on April 9, 2024.
The U.S. Space Force and a Boeing-Lockheed joint venture sent a secret reconnaissance payload to orbit on Tuesday atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket, the last flight of a workhorse launch vehicle brand ...
The final launch for United Launch Alliance's powerful rocket − Delta IV Heavy − is later this week. And it's one you won't want to miss. At 1:40 p.m. EST Thursday, March 28, 2024, the Delta ...
The Delta IV Heavy rocket will attempt to launch at 12:53 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 9, to deliver NROL-70, a National Reconnaissance Office mission, to space from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape ...
Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. A first list contains rockets that are operational or have attempted an orbital flight attempt as of 2024; a second list ...
Mission: ULA's last Delta IV Heavy triple-core rocket will launch on the NROL-70 national security mission. Launch window: 12:53 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 9 Trajectory: Due east