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The final half-decade of launches in the Thor/Delta family consisted of one Delta IV Heavy each year from 2020 through 2024. 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 ...
Retirement of the Delta IV occurred in 2024. [3] Delta IV vehicles were built in the ULA facility in Decatur, Alabama. Final assembly was completed at the launch site by ULA: at the horizontal integration facility for launches from SLC-37B pad at Cape Canaveral and in a similar facility for launches from SLC-6 pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base. [1]
Delta IV Heavy: D-389 Cape Canaveral SLC-37B: ULA: Orion 12 / Mentor 10 [141] NRO: Geosynchronous: Reconnaissance : In orbit: Operational NROL-70 Mission. Final Delta IV Heavy launch, and final launch of the Delta rocket family. 10 April 05:40:00 [142] Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 6-48 Cape Canaveral SLC-40: SpaceX: Starlink × 23 SpaceX ...
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 Space Coast saw a record number of launches from the two facilities with 57 in 2022. Space Launch Delta 45 commander Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy said in January that there could be between 86 and ...
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The Delta IV Heavy made its debut during a December 2004 demonstration flight from Launch Complex 37. Mission: ULA's last Delta IV Heavy triple-core rocket will launch on the NROL-70 national ...
IM-1 Nova-C Odysseus launched on 15 February 2024 towards the Moon via Falcon 9 on a direct intercept trajectory and later landed in the south polar region of the Moon on 22 February 2024 and became the first successful private lander and the first to do so using cryogenic propellants. Though it landed successfully, one of the lander's legs ...