Recommended Videos The mission will get underway from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Thursday, March 28, with liftoff scheduled for 1:40 p.m.
Related For its 16th and final flight, ULA’s Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch the NROL-70 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office , deploying an intelligence satellite into a geostationary orbit.
Watch a preview video of what you can expect during the #DeltaIVHeavy rocket's final flight. At the request of our customer, live coverage of the #NROL70 mission will conclude after payload fairing jettison approximately seven minutes into flight. #TheDeltaFinale pic.twitter.com/cs2JBgyoG5 Thursday’s historic flight brings to a close six decades of service by the reliable family of rockets that Colorado-based ULA recently described as “the dependable Delta.
ULA has been a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin since 2006. The company shuttered its Delta assembly line in Alabama in June 2023 after producing the 389th and final Delta rocket. The Delta IV Heavy and another ULA rocket — the Atlas V — are being replaced by ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. The Vulcan took its maiden flight from the Kennedy Space Center in January.
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