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Delta 345: Delta 2-7920 lofts WorldView 2 |
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Satellite launched to give truer view of the world
A company that scans the world with its high-resolution imaging satellites launched another spacecraft October 8, one that promises to reveal Earth's true colors for commercial mapping and monitoring.
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Delta 344: Delta 2-7920 launches STSS Demo |
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Delta 2 rocket launches missile defense satellites
A Delta 2 rocket powered two experimental missile-tracking satellites into orbit Sept. 25 to test advanced technologies for the nation's defense against enemy attacks.
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Delta 343: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-21 |
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Bittersweet launch ends several chapters of history
As the day dawned at Cape Canaveral on August 17, another Delta 2 rocket darted into the sky on a satellite deployment mission. But this successful launch was remarkably different. Instead of bringing joy, there was deep sadness from the finality bought by the flight.
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Photo gallery: Air Force's final Delta 2 rocket launch
The Delta 2 rocket made one last flight for the U.S. Air Force by launching the Global Positioning System 2R-21 satellite from Cape Canaveral's pad 17A on Monday.
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Delta 342: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GOES O |
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Delta 4 deploys advanced weather observatory
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket boosted a new GOES weather satellite into space June 27 to serve as an orbital spare for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's fleet of hurricane-tracking weather sentinels.
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Delta 341: Delta 2-7920 launches STSS-ATRR |
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Delta 2 rocket launches missile defense craft
A quasi-classified satellite that will serve as an engineering trailblazer for ballistic missile tracking technologies flew into space May 5, riding aloft aboard a Delta 2 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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Delta 340: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-20 |
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Delta 2 rocket deploys another GPS satellite
Continuing 20 years of building and maintaining the Global Positioning System, the workhorse Delta 2 rocket March 24 successfully launched another satellite for the navigation network known the world over.
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Delta 339: Delta 2-7925 launches Kepler |
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Kepler leaves Earth to
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NASA's Kepler planet-finder began its mission to discover Earth-like worlds orbiting other stars in the galaxy March 6, successfully launching at 10:49:57 p.m. EST aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
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Delta 338: Delta 2-7320 lofts NOAA-N Prime |
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History abounds in launch of crucial weather satellite
A last-of-its-kind weather observatory with roots reaching back to the earliest days of U.S. space exploration rocketed into orbit Feb. 6 to keep logging environmental records until a long-delayed new generation of satellites is ready.
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Delta 337: Delta 4-Heavy launches NROL-26 |
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Delta 4-Heavy rocket launches secret satellite
America's heavy-lift rocket, the white and orange triple-barreled booster towering 23 stories tall, launched a new intelligence-gathering satellite for the nation Jan. 17.
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Delta 336: Delta 2-7420 launches COSMO 3 |
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Italian radar-imaging craft launched by Delta rocket
The third spacecraft for Italy's home-grown Earth observing system, a constellation of radar satellites built for civil and military reconnaissance, received a successful boost into orbit by an American Delta 2 rocket.
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Delta 335: Delta 2-7420 launches GeoEye 1 |
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High-res commercial Earth imager launched to space
A Delta 2 rocket thundered out of America's western spaceport September 6 and put into orbit a commercial Earth-imaging satellite that promises to offer a sharper clarity than any private satellite launched before it.
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Delta 334: Delta 2-7320 launches Jason 2 |
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Satellite flown into space to monitor Earth's oceans
NASA partnered with European scientists to launch an ocean research satellite from California on June 20, giving forecasters a new tool to make more accurate predictions of weather patterns and climate change.
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Delta 333: Delta 2-7920H launches GLAST |
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NASA launches observatory with gamma ray vision
A Delta 2 rocket roared to life and successfully boosted a $690 million space telescope into orbit on June 11, the most sophisticated observatory ever built to study the tell-tale high energy gamma rays generated by the most violent explosions and processes in the known universe.
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Delta 332: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-19 |
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Delta's late-night launch
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Using one of its final Delta 2 rockets, the U.S. Air Force continued a year-long launch surge of new Global Positioning System satellites with a successful blastoff from Cape Canaveral over the weekend.
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Delta 331: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-18 |
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Final Delta launch of 2007 lofts new GPS satellite
A productive year for the Delta rocket program that launched spacecraft to observe Earth, dig up frozen water on Mars and explore uncharted worlds in the asteroid belt was capped with a successful ascent of a modernized GPS navigation satellite on Thursday afternoon from Cape Canaveral.
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Delta 330: Delta 2-7420 launches COSMO 2 |
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Italian-made Earth observer soars into space
The second in a series of Italian radar satellites rocketed away from Earth on Saturday night, achieving a spot-on delivery into polar orbit aboard a Delta 2 rocket launched from California.
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Delta 329: Delta 4-Heavy launches DSP 23 |
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Delta 4-Heavy rocket fires away from Cape Canaveral
It is America's largest unmanned space booster. Its level of complexity causes engineers to liken it to launching three rockets at one time. And its fiery blastoffs create a dazzling yet heart-in-your-throat sight. Now, the mammoth Delta 4-Heavy has entered operational service with Saturday night's successful ascent carrying a critical surveillance satellite.
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Last-of-its-kind satellite reaches orbit
Saturday night signaled the end of a 37-year-long string of launches for the Air Force's early warning satellite program as the military prepares to transition toward a new system.
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Delta 328: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-17 |
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Upgraded satellite launched for the GPS constellation
A Global Positioning System satellite with enhanced qualities is flying high after successfully soaring into space Wednesday to reinvigorate a corner of the precision navigation network.
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Delta 327: Delta 2-7925H launches Dawn |
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Dawn spacecraft begins mission of exploration
Seeking to explore the uncharted worlds of Vesta and Ceres in the heart of the asteroid belt, NASA's Dawn space probe rocketed off planet Earth at sunrise Thursday to begin the three-billion-mile adventure that is counting on the craft's exotic ion engines to drive the eight-year trek.
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Delta 326: Delta 2-7920 lofts WorldView 1 |
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Delta 2 rocket launches to new success record
A sophisticated new Earth-imaging satellite with sharp eyes, nimble moves and a broad memory was launched Sept. 18, riding the ever-dependable Delta 2 rocket into orbit during a flawless ascent that set a new reliability mark for modern space boosters.
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Delta 325: Delta 2-7925 launches Phoenix |
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Phoenix takes flight!
NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has embarked on its 10-month, 420-million-mile cruise from Earth to Mars, departing aboard a Delta 2 rocket August 4 bound for the Red Planet to examine the frozen water in the northern plains that could be a habitable zone for life.
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Phoenix launch gallery
These collections of images show the Phoenix spacecraft leaving Earth for its interplanetary cruise to Mars. The mobile service gantry at pad 17A was rolled back Friday evening to reveal the Delta 2 rocket in the final hours of the countdown. The successful liftoff followed early Saturday.
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From Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, these panoramas show the Complex 17 launch pads used by Delta 2 rockets. Spaceflight Now photographer Chris Miller captured the panoramas before and after the Phoenix launch from pad 17A. The rocket to loft the Dawn asteroid probe stands on pad 17B.
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Lander targets Mars' water
When NASA's Phoenix lander arrives at Mars next May, it will join a flotilla of spacecraft already at the red planet working as a team of robotic scientists to probe the existence of water.
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Delta 324: Delta 2-7420 launches COSMO 1 |
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Italian satellite rockets to space atop Delta 2 booster
A Delta 2 rocket successfully launched June 7 from California to begin assembling an Italian-built constellation of observation satellites that will use radar to image the Earth for commercial and military uses.
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Delta 323: Delta 2-7925 launches THEMIS |
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Five spacecraft launched to probe space storms
Aiming to uncover the physics that power the auroras that crown Earth's poles, five tiny probes have been launched into space for a synchronized orbital dance to locate where the trigger is pulled to create the eerily magnificent displays.
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Delta 322: Delta 2-7920 launches NRO craft |
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First flight a success for United Launch Alliance
A secret spacecraft for the U.S. government's spy satellite agency successfully rocketed into orbit December 14 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base in a history-making launch, the first for the United Launch Alliance consortium.
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Delta 321: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-16 |
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Delta 2 completes another GPS satellite delivery
The 125th Boeing Delta 2 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral November 17 on another mission to replenish the satellite constellation of the Global Positioning System.
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Delta 320: Delta 4-Medium lofts DMSP F17 |
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Military weather satellite rockets into polar orbit
A globe-spanning weather observatory successfully launched into space November 4 aboard a Boeing Delta 4 rocket, giving the U.S. military a new set of orbiting eyes to help plan air, sea and land operations around the world.
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Delta 319: Delta 2-7925 launches STEREO |
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Spacecraft launched to see the sun in a new dimension
NASA launched a pair of compact spacecraft October 25 that will use the moon's gravity to whip them into orbital positions ahead of and behind the Earth to study titanic solar eruptions in 3-D.
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Delta 318: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-15 |
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Updating the GPS satellite network takes next step
One year to the day after the Global Positioning System constellation began a modernization effort to improve the accuracy of the navigation network, the next step in that upgrade blasted into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Delta 317: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts NRO craft |
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New era of rocket launches begins at California base
A new spy satellite is circling Earth after a spectacular sendoff Tuesday evening, marking the first time such a clandestine national security spacecraft has launched aboard America's modern breed of rockets.
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Delta 316: Delta 2-7925 launches MiTEx |
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Delta 2 rocket puts military experiment into space
An experimental U.S. military project to characterize the performance of two micro-satellite trailblazers operating 22,300 miles above Earth and a prototype maneuvering motor for small spacecraft began with a beautiful blastoff from Cape Canaveral on the evening of June 21.
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Delta 315: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GOES-N |
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Weather observatory for Americas ascends to space
The first member of a revitalized series of spaceborne weather watchers was shepherded into orbit by a Delta 4 rocket in a marathon launch May 24, giving American meteorologists a sophisticated new tool to warn against dangerous severe storms.
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Delta 314: Delta 2-7420 launches CALIPSO and CloudSat |
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7th shot the lucky one for Delta rocket launch
You could say it was a dream for insomniacs but a nightmare for everyone else. A week of night-owl countdowns to launch a Boeing Delta 2 rocket loaded with two atmospheric research satellites ended in scrubs for one reason or another. But try number seven proved to be the lucky one April 28, as the Delta rocket successfully blasted off from California.
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Delta 2: Photo gallery of Friday's rocket launch
This collection of images shows the Boeing Delta 2 rocket launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 3:02 a.m. local time with the CALIPSO and CloudSat atmospheric research satellites. Enjoy!
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Delta 313: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-14 |
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GPS modernization begins with Delta rocket launch
A Boeing Delta 2 booster pierced the night sky September 25, successfully launching the first modernized Global Positioning System satellite to build a bridge from the navigation network of today to the advancements of tomorrow.
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Delta 312: Delta 2-7320 lofts NOAA-N |
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Delta 2 rocket delivers weather satellite into space
A weather observatory was successfully launched into orbit May 20 to build upon a 45-year history of tracking the Earth's environmental conditions from space.
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Delta 311: Delta 2-7925 lofts Deep Impact |
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Probe launched to smack heart of wandering comet
Look out Comet Tempel 1, here comes Deep Impact! A washing machine-sized projectile tucked inside its mothership spacecraft launched from Earth January 12 on a 268-million-mile collision course that promises to create spectacular July Fourth fireworks when the 820-pound copper-tipped bullet smashes into the comet's frigid heart.
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Delta 310: Delta 4-Heavy demo flight |
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Delta 4-Heavy rocket hits snag on test flight
The test launch of Boeing's Delta 4-Heavy rocket began with a breath-taking blastoff from Cape Canaveral on December 21 but lower-than-expected performance during the initial minutes of flight ultimately caused the mission to fall short of its intended orbit.
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Delta 309: Delta 2-7320 launches Swift |
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Spacecraft launched to observe cataclysmic blasts
NASA launched a $250 million quick-response satellite November 20 to study enigmatic gamma ray flashes from brief-but-titanic deep space explosions that may be the "death cries" of massive stars imploding to form black holes.
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Photo collection: Successful launch of Swift spacecraft
NASA's Swift gamma-ray observatory was launched aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 12:16 p.m. EST November 20. These photo galleries follow the day's activities and successful blastoff into crystal-clear skies.
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Delta 308: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-13 |
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Delta rocket puts on late-night show with GPS launch
After a nerve-racking stay on its Cape Canaveral launch pad with uncomfortably close encounters by two powerful hurricanes, a Boeing Delta 2 rocket finally thundered into space November 6 where it successfully deployed a Global Positioning System satellite to aid U.S. military forces around the world.
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Delta 307: Delta 2-7925H lofts MESSENGER |
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Probe leaves Earth on voyage to orbit Mercury
A Boeing Delta 2 rocket roared to life August 3 and climbed into space, launching NASA's ambitious MESSENGER probe on a round-about six-and-a-half-year voyage to Mercury, a $427 million quest to fill in one of the most glaring blanks in planetary exploration.
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MESSENGER launch told through photo collection
NASA's MESSENGER space probe began its seven-year, five-billion mile journey from Earth to the planet Mercury aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket. These two photo galleries capture the countdown and the actual launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Delta 306: Delta 2-7920 launches Aura |
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Craft launched to probe atmosphere's chemistry
A school bus-sized space observatory that will monitor the health of Earth's atmosphere in unprecedented detail rocketed into polar orbit July 15, finally darting away from its California launch pad atop a Boeing Delta 2 booster after several frustrating delays.
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Delta 305: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-12 |
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Delta rocket successfully launches one for The Gipper
Finally winning the battle over Florida's summertime weather after three earlier losses, a Boeing Delta 2 rocket roared to space June 23 and deployed a Global Positioning System military navigation satellite in a mission dedicated to the memory of President Ronald Reagan.
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Launch photo collection
This gallery of launch pictures captures the successful flight of Boeing's Delta 2 rocket carrying the GPS 2R-12 spacecraft as seen from sound-activated cameras at pad 17B, the press viewing site at Cape Canaveral and more.
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Photos show launch preps
These photos were taken Wednesday morning as the mobile service tower was rolled away from the Boeing Delta 2 rocket at launch pad 17B.
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Delta 304: Delta 2-7920 launches Gravity Probe-B |
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Spacecraft launched to test Albert Einstein's theories
A slender Boeing Delta 2 rocket boosted NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft into polar orbit April 20, kicking off a $700 million mission to precisely measure how gravity warps and twists the fabric of space and time.
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Delta 303: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-11 |
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Newest GPS spacecraft successfully soars into orbit
As the 50th Global Positioning System satellite rose to space March 20, it celebrated the man who championed the concept of orbiting spacecraft serving as "lighthouses in the sky" to guide mankind with precision navigation information.
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Delta 302: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-10 |
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Upgraded satellite en route to GPS constellation
With a flash of blinding light, a $45 million replacement craft began its thunderous trek toward the U.S. military's Global Positioning System constellation December 21 aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket.
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Delta 301: Delta 4 Medium launches DSCS B6 |
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Delta 4 rocket delivers last Air Force DSCS satellite
After four decades and two dozen launches, the Air Force's longest-running communications satellite system received its final member August 29 with the successful flight of Boeing's Delta 4 rocket.
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Delta 300: Delta 2-7920H launches SIRTF |
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300th Delta rocket launches new window on Universe
With a sky-lighting burst of flame and thunder, a Boeing Delta 2 rocket boosted a $1.2 billion infrared telescope into space August 25, a "great observatory" designed to detect the feeble glow of infant planets, stars and galaxies in the making.
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Delta 299: Delta 2-7925H launches MER-B |
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Earth's Opportunity rover launched to Mars
Recovering from a last-second cliffhanger delay, NASA finally launched its second state-of-the-art rover to Mars on July 7, sending the $400 million "Opportunity" spacecraft on its way atop a hot-rod Delta 2 rocket that lighted the night sky for dozens of miles around.
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Delta 298: Delta 2-7925 launches MER-A |
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'Spirit' rover begins seven-month cruise to Mars
NASA kicked off an $800 million mission to Mars on June 10, launching the first of two golf cart-sized robots that will creep across the red planet's surface looking for the geological traces of a warmer, wetter past and the environmental conditions necessary for the evolution of life.
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Delta 297: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-9 |
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Delta doesn't disappoint in successful GPS launch
A new satellite to replenish the U.S. military's preeminent space-based navigation network roared off the planet March 31, destined to circle 11,000 miles above the globe to guide soldiers in the battlefield and civilians around the world.
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Delta 296: Delta 4 Medium launches DSCS A3 |
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Delta 4 rocket successfully begins military service
Born in the last decade by the Pentagon's call for a next-generation launcher of satellite cargos, Boeing's Delta 4 rocket did what it was designed to do March 10 with the successful deployment of a $210 million military communications spacecraft. It was the Air Force's first Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle mission.
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Delta 295: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-8 |
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Delta rocket launches GPS navigation satellite
For the first time in two years, a replacement satellite is en route to bolster the U.S. military's Global Positioning System constellation following a successful launch January 29 that was dedicated to the heroes of September 11.
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Delta 294: Delta 2-7320 launches ICESat and CHIPSat |
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Delta 2 pulls double duty with launch of two satellites
Two NASA spacecraft -- one that will bounce laser beams off Earth to gauge environmental changes, the other to study relics of a supernova explosion in our galactic neighborhood -- rode a Boeing Delta 2 rocket into orbit January 12 from California.
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Delta 293: Delta 4 Medium+ launches W5 |
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Boeing's Delta 4 rocket debuts successfully
The era of Boeing's next-generation rocket family was launched with success November 20 as the maiden Delta 4 powered its way into Earth orbit to deploy a European-made communications satellite.
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Delta 292: Delta 2-7425 launches CONTOUR |
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Probe launched to see fossils of planet formation
A tiny space probe was dispatched from Earth July 3 for a tantalizing tour of comets -- the frozen time capsules that hold the primordial building blocks left over from the creation of our solar system.
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Delta 291: Delta 2-7920 launches Aqua |
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New environmental eye on Earth launched into space
Touted as a "grand observatory" to study planet Earth's water resources from space, NASA's Aqua satellite flew to its orbital perch May 4 atop a Boeing Delta 2 rocket.
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Delta 290: Delta 2-7920 lofts Iridium sats |
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Delta 2 rocket launches quintet of Iridium satellites
Five new satellites that will help keep the resurrected Iridium mobile communications system operating through the decade rode into space February 11 aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket.
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Delta 289: Delta 2-7920 lofts Jason/TIMED |
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Two science satellites launched by 100th Delta 2
Two spacecraft that will use the unique vantage point of space to study our home planet were successfully launched into orbit December 7 by the 100th Boeing Delta 2 rocket.
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Delta 288: Delta 2-7320 launches QuickBird |
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Commercial Earth-imager rockets into space on Delta
Its name is QuickBird and it will take pictures of Earth's surface with unprecedented clarity for a commercial eye-in-the-sky imaging satellite. The spacecraft was successfully launched into orbit October 18 by the workhorse Boeing Delta 2 rocket.
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Delta 287: Delta 2-7326 launches Genesis |
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NASA probe launched to retrieve bits of our origins
NASA's Genesis spacecraft was successfully launched on its three-year, 20-million mile voyage by a Boeing Delta 2 rocket on August 8, kicking off the $260 million mission that aims to catch particles streaming from the Sun and return them to scientists on Earth.
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Delta 286: Delta 2-7425 launches MAP |
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Craft launched to unlock secrets of the universe
A NASA space probe designed to map the afterglow of the Big Bang -- the fossil light from the creation of the universe 14 billion years ago -- was launched into space on June 30 atop a Boeing Delta 2 rocket.
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Delta 285: Delta 2-7925 launches GeoLITE |
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Delta 2 lofts spy satellite technology demonstrator
A $130 million experimental laser communications testbed spacecraft launched May 18 could pave the way for quicker transmission of reconnaissance information from U.S. spy satellites back to Earth.
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Delta 284: Delta 2-7925 lofts Mars Odyssey |
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Martian odyssey begins with successful liftoff
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft set sail for the Red Planet on April 7, departing Earth aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket fitted with two video cameras that provided spectacular views of the thunderous blastoff.
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Delta 283: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-7 |
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Boeing Delta 2 rocket lofts another GPS satellite
Exactly ten years after the U.S. military troops reaped the benefits from the Global Positioning System while fighting the Gulf War in featureless deserts, a new satellite was launched into orbit January 30 to keep the constellation going.
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Delta 282: Delta 2-7320 lofts EO-1 & SAC-C |
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Delta 2 rocket puts three satellites into Earth orbit
Three spacecraft that will study Earth from above were carried aloft November 21 aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket including one that promises to make future remote sensing satellites faster, better and cheaper.
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Delta 281: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-6 |
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Venerable Delta 2 notches another successful launch
A $45 million replacement satellite for the Global Positioning System constellation was lobed into space on November 10 by a Boeing Delta 2 rocket following a midday blastoff from Cape Canaveral.
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Delta 280: Delta 3-8930 on test flight |
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Delta 3 falls short but still a success, Boeing says
Boeing's Delta 3 rocket launched August 23 missed its target orbit by over a thousand miles, but company officials are still hailing the demonstration mission as a complete success. The $85 million booster lofted a satellite mockup to prove its reliability after two earlier failures.
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The official embroidered patch for the International Space Station Expedition 20 crew is now available from our stores.
The official embroidered patch for shuttle Atlantis' flight to deliver critical spare equipment to the space station.
The Ares Project will develop two new rockets to launch astronauts back to the Moon under NASA's Vision for Exploration. The Ares 1 will employ a single space shuttle solid rocket booster to loft the Orion crew capsule. The gigantic Ares 5 will haul the equipment and cargo needed for such lunar voyages. This is the Ares emblem.
Hosted by Corbin Bernsen, this award winning documentary marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. space agency and features exclusive interviews with veteran astronauts.
The official embroidered patch for the International Space Station Expedition 21 crew is now available from our stores.
