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Delta 377: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts WGS 9
Internationally-backed military satellite launched
Signaling strength in the international cooperation between the U.S. military and allied nations, a satellite funded by five countries was successfully launched by the Air Force on Saturday to codify a global communications deal.
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Delta 376: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts WGS 8
Highest capacity U.S. military communications satellite launched
An antenna-covered communications spacecraft that will bring more bandwidth and capacity to the U.S. military’s global information grid than any single satellite ever before was successfully launched Wednesday atop a Delta 4 rocket.
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Delta 375: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GSSAP
Two space informants put in geosynchronous orbit
The 375th Delta rocket doubled the size of the Air Force’s “neighborhood watch” program today with the successful launch and deployment of two surveillance satellites into the vast geosynchronous belt of spacecraft around the planet.
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Delta 374: Delta 4-Heavy launches NROL-37
Triple-barrel Delta 4-Heavy launches security satellite
Two million pounds of firepower successfully launched a behemoth Delta 4-Heavy rocket and a top-secret eavesdropping surveillance satellite into space Saturday, embarking on a taxing climb directly into geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth to deploy one of the pinnacles of U.S. intelligence-gathering.
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Delta 373: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts NROL-45
Delta 4 goes to backwards orbit for spy bird
Soaring in fine fashion before daybreak, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket maneuvered a new spy satellite into a unique retrograde orbit this morning to join an expanding constellation of radar-imaging spacecraft.
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Delta 372: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts WGS 7
7th satellite in Air Force’s WGS series launched
A U.S. military satellite that will fortify the “anytime, anywhere” communications infrastructure used by soldiers, ships, aircraft and drones was launched into orbit Thursday to improve the global connectivity that encompasses the planet.
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Delta 371: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GPS 2F-9
New bird flies for GPS navigation network
Climbing away from Earth on the power of its liquid hydrogen-fueled main engine and twin solid rockets, a Delta 4 booster successfully launched a new Global Positioning System satellite Wednesday to benefit U.S. military operations and civilian society as a whole.
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Delta 370: Delta 2-7320 launches SMAP
Delta 2 rises to occasion with SMAP observatory
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.
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Delta 369: Delta 4-Heavy launches Orion
Delta 4-Heavy blasts off with Orion capsule
NASA's inaugural Orion spaceship has set sail on a two-orbit, four-hour shakedown cruise around the Earth, leaving port atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket and its incandescent power at 7:05 a.m. EST on Dec. 5.
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Delta 368: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GSSAP
Space surveillance craft launched by Delta 4 rocket
A pair of covertly developed inspector satellites to monitor collision threats and nefarious activities in geosynchronous orbit for U.S. Strategic Command blasted off Monday aboard a Delta 4 rocket.
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Delta 367: Delta 2-7320 launches OCO 2
Workhorse Delta 2 returns to launch NASA observatory
Streaking back into action after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, a Delta 2 rocket launched NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory No. 2 on Wednesday to watch the Earth breathe from space.
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Delta 366: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GPS 2F-6
New GPS satellite put into orbit by Delta 4 rocket
Igniting a surge of three Global Positioning System satellite launches in the next five months, a Delta 4 rocket blazed a trail of fire and light into the Florida sky Thursday night.
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Delta 365: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GPS 2F-5
New GPS satellite headed to upgrade navigation network
A replacement Global Positioning System spacecraft for the world's best-known satellite constellation ascended into orbit Friday night aboard a Delta 4 rocket in a spectacular sendoff at sunset.
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Delta 364: Delta 4-Heavy launches NROL-65
America's largest rocket lifts off from California
Igniting its three main engines in a staggered sequence for the first time, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket successfully flew into Earth orbit and deployed a U.S. national security satellite Wednesday.
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Delta 363: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts WGS 6
Delta 4 rocket launches for Australian satellite deploy
A rocket launch funded entirely by Australia streaked to orbit Wednesday night from Cape Canaveral in a show of international cooperation between the U.S. military and its allies.
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Delta 362: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts WGS 5
Satellite launched to expand coverage over the Americas
With one more satellite needed in its new military communications system to extend blanket coverage over virtually the entire planet, the spacecraft to make the network's reach global was sent thundering into orbit Friday to join the Air Force's broadening constellation serving troops, ships, drones and civilian leaders.
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   IMAGES: DELTA 4'S LIFTOFF FROM VIEWING SITE
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   IMAGES: SATELLITE ATTACHED FOR LAUNCH
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Delta 361: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GPS 2F-3
GPS gets another upgraded satellite for constellation
Upgrading the Global Positioning System one launch at a time, a modern bird soared to space Thursday to replace a long-surviving navigation satellite deployed 19 years ago, a durable craft of the past that doubled life's expectations and will give way to current advancements. The Delta 4 rocket's cryogenic upper stage, however, persevered through a fuel leak by autonomously engaging techniques that kept the mission on track.
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   INITIAL RL10 STORY
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   IMAGES: WEDNESDAY'S GANTRY ROLLBACK
   IMAGES: GPS 2F-3 PREPARATION PHOTOS
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   LAUNCH EVENTS TIMELINE
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Delta 360: Delta 4-Heavy lofts NROL-15
Delta 4-Heavy rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral
America's heavy-lift rocket, the towering white and orange triple-barreled booster responsible for launching vital security and intelligence satellites, mades another of its spectacular ascents from Cape Canaveral on Friday morning.
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   IMAGES: HOISTING PAYLOAD ATOP ROCKET
Delta 359: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts NROL-25
Delta 4 rocket successfully lofts surveillance satellite
A Delta 4 rocket made a thunderous departure from California on Tuesday afternoon, only to slip into a news blackout minutes later while it climbed higher and faster to deploy a classified spy satellite, a success-defining milestone that was confirmed by hobbyist observers.
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   IMAGES: ROCKET ON THE EVE OF LAUNCH
   IMAGES: TOUR OF SLC 6 PAD
   IMAGES: DELTA 4 POISED ON THE PAD
   IMAGES: PAYLOAD MOUNTED ATOP THE ROCKET
   'MAIDEN FLIGHT' OF SORTS
   RETROGRADE ORBIT TARGETED
   LAUNCH PREVIEW STORY
Delta 358: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts WGS 4
Delta 4 rocket soars for the Defense Department
A new Air Force satellite headed for service over the Middle East to route essential communications to U.S. military forces and improve data links to unmanned aerial drones was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral last night.
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   IMAGES: LIFTOFF AS SEEN FROM PAD'S POND
   IMAGES: OTHER PAD CAMERA COVERED IN DEW
   IMAGES: DELTA 4 PIERCES STARRY SKY
   IMAGES: ROCKET POISED FOR BLASTOFF
   IMAGES: MOBILE SERVICE GANTRY RETRACTED
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   LAUNCH EVENTS TIMELINE
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   ARCHIVE: ROCKET ROLLED TO LAUNCH PAD
   ARCHIVE: WGS 4 ARRIVES FROM FACTORY
   ARCHIVE: PAYLOAD MOUNTED ATOP ROCKET
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Delta 357: Delta 2-7920 launches NPP
Polar orbiter goes up to improve weather forecasts
A satellite whose mission will touch the lives of everyone on Earth by taking the planet's environmental pulse daily for global weather forecasting and meticulous tracking of the changing climate was launched into space Friday morning atop what's potentially the final Delta 2 rocket.
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   GROUND TRACK MAP
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   IMAGES: ROCKET ASSEMBLY GALLERY
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Delta 2 rocket launch yields perfect photography
Last Friday's Delta 2 rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base was a photographer's dream with beautiful weather and a gorgeous California sunset. Take a look back at the countdown and blastoff through the lens of ULA's cameraman.
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   IMAGES: CALIFORNIA SUNSET OVER THE PAD
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Delta 356: Delta 2-7920H launches GRAIL
From the Earth to the Moon: GRAIL spacecraft blast off
Men have walked on it and satellites have surveyed it from every angle, but another mission to the Moon launched Sept. 10 seeks profound new insights about our nearest neighbor in the night sky.
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   IMAGES: PRESS SITE VIEW
   IMAGES: SMOKEY IGNITION SHOTS

   IMAGES: 1ST LAUNCH ATTEMPT GALLERY
   VIDEO: MOON PASSES BY LAUNCH PAD
   IMAGES: TOWER ROLLBACK GALLERY
   IMAGES: DELTA 2 ROCKET ON THE PAD
   LAUNCH WINDOW CHART
   ASCENT EVENTS TIMELINE
   GROUND TRACK MAP
   NASA PRESS KIT (.pdf download)
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Delta 355: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GPS 2F-2
GPS navigation satellite takes nighttime ride to orbit
Continuing a prolific partnership that has benefited billions of users around the world, the Delta rocket family Saturday successfully launched its 50th satellite for the Global Positioning System.
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   IMAGES: FROM CAUSEWAY VIEWING SITE
   IMAGES: PAD GANTRY ROLLED BACK
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   IMAGES: GPS 2F-2 ENCAPSULATED IN NOSE CONE
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Delta 354: Delta 2-7320 launches Aquarius
Satellite sets sail to survey saltiness of Earth's oceans
Seeking a missing ingredient to understanding Earth's environmental changes, a new satellite conceived through unique international collaborations was launched Friday to map the planet's salty seas from space.
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   IMAGES: MORE LAUNCH PICTURES
   IMAGES: LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY
   IMAGES: GANTRY ROLLED BACK

   IMAGES: DELTA'S FIRST STAGE STACKED
   IMAGES: SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS ADDED
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   IMAGES: SATELLITE JOINS ROCKET
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Delta 353: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts NROL-27
Information-routing craft deployed by Delta 4
A medium-class version of United Launch Alliance's Delta 4 rocket gave a lift to the National Reconnaissance Office and an information-routing spacecraft Friday night with blastoff from Cape Canaveral.
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   IMAGES: LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY
   IMAGES: DELTA'S COLORFUL CLIMB INTO SPACE
   IMAGES: PRE-FLIGHT VIEWS OF THE DELTA 4
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Delta 352: Delta 4-Heavy launches NROL-49
Delta 4-Heavy rocket launches from California
The clandestine cargo carried into polar orbit Thursday aboard the first California-launched Delta 4-Heavy rocket was a crucial replacement satellite for the nation's surveillance and security network, amateur sky-watchers say.
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   IMAGES: LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY
   IMAGES: LIFTOFF AS SEEN FROM THE BEACH
   IMAGES: MOBILE SERVICE TOWER ROLLED BACK
   IMAGES: THE DAY BEFORE LAUNCH
   PREVIEW STORY
   HISTORY FEATURE STORY
Delta 351: Delta 4-Heavy launches NROL-32
Eavesdropping craft heads to space atop Delta 4-Heavy
One could not overstate the importance of Sunday night's Delta 4-Heavy launch to national security, a mission by the massive rocket from Cape Canaveral that deployed "the largest satellite in the world" to hear the whispers of evil.
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   IMAGES: LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY
   MISSION STATUS CENTER - live updates!
   PREVIEW STORY
   IMAGES: ROCKET POISED FOR COUNTDOWN
   IMAGES: MOBILE GANTRY ROLLBACK
Delta 350: Delta 2-7420 launches COSMO 4
350 launches and counting for family of Delta rockets
There was a sentimental blastoff from California on Friday night as the venerable Delta 2 made its one-and-only flight of the year, chalking up a major milestone for the rocket family's lasting legacy while also finishing deployment of Italy's radar satellite quartet that images the world for peace and security.
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   MISSION STATUS CENTER - live updates!
   IMAGES: POISED FOR LAUNCH
   LAUNCH EVENTS TIMELINE
   GROUND TRACK MAP
Delta 349: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GPS 2F-1
First-of-its-kind satellite for GPS launched into space
A new era for the Global Positioning System rocketed into orbit Thursday night, beginning a concerted effort to sharpen the precision capabilities beaming from the world's foremost space-based navigation network.
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   IMAGES: LAUNCH PAD COLLECTION
   IMAGES: MOBILE GANTRY ROLLBACK
   IMAGES: POISED FOR LAUNCH
   LAUNCH EVENTS TIMELINE
   GROUND TRACK MAP
   DELTA 4 ROCKET
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Delta 348: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts GOES P
Teaming of Delta 4 rocket and GOES a sweet success
The Delta 4 rocket has accomplished a critical three-peat for the nation in flawless style, successfully capping a series of repetitive but highly important U.S. weather satellite launches with a beautiful blastoff at nightfall March 4.
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   MISSION STATUS CENTER
   IMAGES: LAUNCH PAD CAMERAS
   IMAGES: DELTA 4 SOARS INTO DUSKY SKY
   IMAGES: ROCKET UNVEILED ON LAUNCH MORNING
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   TRAJECTORY MAP
   VIDEO: HIGH DEFINITION COVERAGE
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Delta 347: Delta 2-7320 launches WISE
Universe mapper with infrared eyes launched
With the promise to discover millions of objects never seen before and revolutionize our view of the Universe, NASA has launched its WISE observatory on a scouting expedition that will rewrite the road maps to the cosmos.
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Delta 346: Delta 4-Medium+ lofts WGS 3
New communications craft launched for U.S. military
The Delta 4 rocket debuted its latest variant with a display of power and precision Saturday night, successfully using an energetic creation to heave a vital communications satellite into space for the U.S. military.
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Delta 345: Delta 2-7920 lofts WorldView 2
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kepler leaves Earth to
discover new worlds

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Delta's late-night launch
lofts new GPS satellite

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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PANORAMA 5 | PANORAMA 6
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Delta 279: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-5
Delta shows what it's like to launch into the night
As a Boeing Delta 2 rocket successfully lofted a new U.S. Air Force navigation satellite on Sunday, two onboard video cameras provided dazzling views of the predawn jaunt into space.
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Delta 278: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-4
Delta rocket lofts replacement GPS satellite
A fresh spacecraft was launched into orbit for the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System on May 10 to fill a void created by the recent loss of the constellation's inaugural satellite.
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Delta rocket launch to fill vacant hole in GPS network
A new Global Positioning System military navigation satellite will be launched into space Friday night to replace the very first spacecraft deployed in the U.S. Air Force constellation 11 years ago.
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Delta 277: Delta 2-7326 launches IMAGE
Space weather satellite launched by Boeing rocket
A NASA satellite built to see Earth's invisible magnetosphere was trucked into orbit on March 25 by a Boeing Delta 2 rocket. The IMAGE probe will serve as a new pair of eyes in space to study the solar wind and its affect on the planet.
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Delta 276: Delta 2-7420 launches Globalstars
Globalstar constellation completed with Delta launch
A Boeing Delta 2 rocket added the final touches to Globalstar's orbiting armada of cellular telephone satellites on February 8, delivering the last four spacecraft into orbit.
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Boeing Delta 2 rocket to fly for Globalstar
The first Boeing Delta rocket launch of 2000, a $110 million mission dedicated to completing Globalstar's space-based cellular telephone system, is planned for February 8 at Cape Canaveral.
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Delta 275: Delta 2-7925 launches GPS 2R-3
Delta 2 rocket successfully launches GPS satellite
The final Boeing Delta 2 launch of 1999 occurred on October 7, boosting a U.S. Air Force NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block 2R navigation satellite into space.
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