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Photos: More shots of Saturday’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket Launch

June 12, 2016 Justin Ray

Departing on three pillars of fire, the United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifted off at 1:51 p.m. from Cape Canaveral for a classified national security satellite deployment.

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Photos by Alex Polimeni/Spaceflight Now

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  • West Coast Falcon 9 launch continues expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink network
    June 24, 2026
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  • SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg
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