A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket successfully launched the NROL-70 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for the final time on Tuesday afternoon. The rocket launched at 12:53 p.m. from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Central Florida.
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket successfully launched the NROL-70 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office for the final time on Tuesday afternoon.The rocket launched at 12:53 p.m. from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Central Florida. The launch marked the 16th and last launch of the Delta IV Heavy rocket series.
The penultimate liftoff of the rocket happened in June, launching the NROL-68 mission.The rocket uses half a million gallons of fuel and has three side-by-side booster cores, each with Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68A engines that provide a combined 2.1 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. ULA is replacing the Delta Heavy and the Atlas V with the new Vulcan rocket. The Atlas series uses Russian-made RD-180 engines.
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