The launch of NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecraft

NOAA’s new JPSS 1 weather satellite deployed from its Delta 2 launcher in an orbit more than 500 miles above Earth nearly one hour after blasting off from California.

Here’s a look by the numbers of the previous Delta 4 flight history and the remaining flights of the rocket named Delta.

A record number of Atlas 5 launches, the return of Delta 2 and a Delta 4-Heavy at the dawn of a new space exploration era highlighted 2014 for United Launch Alliance.