Delta IV, space launch system, United Launch Alliance, Centennial, Colorado, USA

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifts off from Space Launch Complex-6. Designated NROL-65, the mission is in support of national defense. This is ULA's eighth launch in 2013, the 24th Delta IV mission and the second Delta IV Heavy launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Lockheed Martin successfully launched from Space Launch Complex-37. ULA’s 90th mission launched this uncrewed flight test called Exploration Flight Test-1 enabling the next phase of human space exploration.

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket successfully launched the ninth Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite for the U.S. Air Force from Space Launch Complex-37. This was ULA’s fourth launch in 2015 and the 95th successful launch since the company was formed in December 2006.

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A Delta IV rocket lifts off carrying the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM satellite for the U.S. Air Force. Wideband Global SATCOM provides anytime, anywhere communication for the warfighter through broadcast, multicast and point to point connections.

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A Delta IV rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex-6 carrying the NROL-45 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.

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Virtual reality cameras captured one of the most powerful activities in spaceflight...launch. No human being has ever experienced a rocket launch from this close.

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A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launched the NROL-37 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), on 11 June 2016, at 21:51 UTC (5:51pm EDT), from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. NROL-37 was the 32nd Delta IV mission, and the 10th NRO mission to launch on Delta IV.

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the NROL-37 mission lifted off June 11, 2016, from Space Launch Complex-37 at 1:51 p.m. EDT.

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ULA's Delta IV rocket lifts off with the AFSPC-6 mission for the United States Air Force.

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Step onto the launch pad as ULA’s Delta IV Heavy blasts off with the NROL-37 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. The Delta IV Heavy is nearly as tall as the U.S. Capitol and generates more than 2.1 million pounds of thrust off the launch pad.

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A Delta IV rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 with the Air Force's ninth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite.

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the NROL-47 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-6.

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A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launched NASA’s Parker Solar Probe from Space Launch Complex-37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on 12 August 2018, at 07:31 UTC (03:31 EDT). The Parker Solar Probe will study the Sun to help us better understand the corona, the solar wind and other solar activity that might impact life on Earth. The mission was named for Eugene Parker, the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission launched Aug. 11 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be the first to fly directly through the Sun’s corona – the hazardous region of intense heat and solar radiation in the Sun’s atmosphere that is visible during an eclipse. It will gather data that could help answer questions about solar physics that have puzzled scientists for decades. Gathering information about fundamental processes near the Sun can help improve our understanding of how our solar system’s star changes the space environment, where space weather can affect astronauts, interfere with satellite orbits, or damage spacecraft electronics.

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission to the sun lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Aug. 12, 2018. The mission is humanity’s first journey to the sun. Check out Dr. Eugene N. Parker watching the rocket set of on its journey to space.

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying launch NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on Sept. 15, 2018. ICESat-2 is the 155th and final launch of the Delta II rocket. From its origin as the launch vehicle for the first Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to NASA’s Earth observing, science and interplanetary satellites including Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity to vital commercial communication and imaging satellites, the Delta II rocket has truly earned its place in space history.

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A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium+ (5,2) configuration rocket launched WGS-10, the 10th Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, from Space Launch Complex-37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on 16 March 2019, at 00:26 UTC (15 March, 20:26 EDT). The mission marks the eighth flight of the Delta IV in the Medium+ (5,4) configuration and the 39th launch of the Delta IV since its inaugural launch in 2002.

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the Air Force's WGS-10 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on March 15, 2019. ULA has been the exclusive launch provider for all ten WGS satellites.

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A ULA Delta IV rocket carrying the GPS III SV-2 mission for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at 9:06 a.m. ET on Aug. 22, 2019.

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