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December 16, 2025

Breaking News

[ December 15, 2025 ] Rocket Lab Electron rocket aborts liftoff at engine ignition Electron
[ December 15, 2025 ] ULA Atlas 5 launch puts Amazon’s 180th broadband satellite in low Earth orbit Atlas 5
[ December 14, 2025 ] Falcon 9 launch of 29 Starlink satellites from the Kennedy Space Center delayed to Wednesday Falcon 9
[ December 14, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 100th Falcon 9 rocket from Florida in 2025 Falcon 9
[ December 13, 2025 ] SpaceX completes 550th booster landing amid Saturday night Falcon 9 flight Falcon 9

Photos: Delta 4 awaits blastoff

March 24, 2015 Justin Ray

The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket sits peacefully inside its mobile service gantry on Tuesday afternoon, one day before its scheduled launch of the GPS 2F-9 navigation satellite.

OTD…March 24 and STS-45

March 24, 2015 Justin Ray

Studying the atmosphere as part of NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth was the objective of shuttle Atlantis’ STS-45 mission in March 1992.

Live coverage: Delta 4 rocket poised for launch Wednesday

March 24, 2015 Justin Ray

A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket is scheduled for liftoff Wednesday at 2:36 p.m. EDT (1836 GMT) from Cape Canaveral to place into orbit a fresh satellite for the Global Positioning System.

Stats: Atlas 5 history and backlog

March 19, 2015 Justin Ray

Here’s a look by the numbers of the previous Atlas 5 flight history and the current backlog and manifest for the rocket.

Stats: Delta 4 history and manifest

March 18, 2015 Justin Ray

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

On This Date…March 15 and STS-119

March 15, 2015 Justin Ray

#OTD in 2009, shuttle Discovery delivers power payload to space station.

Full story: Delta 2 rises to occasion with SMAP observatory

January 31, 2015 Justin Ray

The ever-dependable Delta 2 rocket continued its flawless service to NASA and Earth sciences Saturday with the launch of a $916 million environmental probe focused on producing global maps of soil moisture from space.