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 Spaceflight Now Plus Coverage of First Delta 4 Updated: November 8, 2002 Complete pre-launch and mission coverage of Boeing's first Delta 4 rocket for Spaceflight Now Plus subscribers. Find out how to get your subscription for as little as US$5.95/UK£3.95.
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Boeing's new Delta 4 rocket undergoes a dramatic five-second test firing at Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 37. (42 sec file)
Listen to the final minute of the countdown, the engine firing and post-shutdown safing in this longer clip. (2min 02sec file)
The engine firing as seen from the press site located on the NASA Causeway to the southwest of the launch pad. (26sec file)
A spectacular view of the Delta 4 rocket's base as flames shoot up from the launch table during the engine firing. (18 sec file)
This view of the engine firing through cutoff is seen from a TV camera to the south of the pad. (5sec file)
Workers in the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) make final preparations to move the first Boeing Delta 4 rocket to the launch pad. (1min 48sec file)
Riding on its motorized transporter, the inaugural Delta 4 rocket rolls out of its hangar at Cape Canaveral's Complex 37 en route to the launch pad. (2min 34sec file)
The two-stage Delta 4 rocket makes the half-mile trek to launch pad 37B. (4min 08sec file)
The transporter arrives at the pad and positions the rocket on the erector arm for the upcoming lift upright. (3min 15sec file)
With the pallets holding the Delta 4 secured to the pad's erector, the Kamag transporter is driven away from the rocket. (2min 07sec file)
The hydraulic erector arm of launch pad 37B slowly lifts the Delta 4 vertically, sitting the rocket atop the launch table. (4min 11sec file)
These various scenes show the first Boeing Delta 4 rocket standing upright on launch pad 37B. (3min 33sec file)
As the sun rises the next morning, the pad's erector arm is lowered away from the Delta 4 and returned to its the pit. (4min 01sec file)
The first of two strap-on solid rocket motors for the maiden Delta 4 rocket is trucked to launch pad 37B. (2min 30sec file)
The launch pad crane lifts the solid motor from its transport trailer. (2min 20sec file)
The solid-fueled motor is hoisted into the backside of the pad 37B mobile service tower, over the rocket and then lowered into position for attachment to the first stage. (1min 44sec file)
Launch pad workers mount the Alliant-made solid rocket booster to the Delta 4. (2min 41sec file)
The second of the two solid motors, which will provide extra boost during the first 90 seconds of launch, is maneuvered into place for mating with the Delta 4. (2min 27sec file)
Preview the maiden flight of Boeing's Delta 4 rocket with this animated movie of a Delta 4 Medium+ 4,2 configuration. (1min 37sec file)
Preview what a Boeing Delta 4 rocket launch will be like with this animation package of a "Heavy" configuration vehicle lofting two communications satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
Take a detailed look at how a Delta 4 rocket is processed for launch at Cape Canaveral from its arrival, to stage mating in the Horizontal Integration Facility, to erection on the launch pad in this animation.