Stats: Delta 4 history and backlog (updated March 30)

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will boost NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M, or TDRS-M, into space from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 18 at 8:03 a.m. EDT (1203 GMT).

Air Force meteorologists are expecting good weather to launch the Delta 4 rocket with a military communications satellite when the sun goes down Friday evening at Cape Canaveral.

Boeing has released a new video of the company’s Nov. 4 pad abort test demonstrating the Starliner crew capsule’s ability to escape a launch emergency.