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Tanking test marks resumption of Delta 2 rocket’s final launch campaign
A team of United Launch Alliance and NASA engineers worked through Delta 2 launch day fueling procedures during a simulated countdown Wednesday for what should be the second-to-last time before the venerable rocket's final liftoff next month from California's Central Coast.
Video replay: Parker Solar Probe launches atop Delta 4-Heavy
Watch a video replay of NASA's Parker Solar Probe lifting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 37 atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy on August 12, 2018.
Photos: Delta 4-Heavy takes off from Cape Canaveral
Driven by three RS-68A main engines, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifted off early Sunday from Cape Canaveral carrying NASA's Parker Solar Probe on a historic mission to study the sun.
NASA launches Parker Solar Probe on historic mission
Running a day late, a United Launch Alliance heavy-lift Delta 4 rocket thundered away from Cape Canaveral early Sunday, boosting NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe into space on a daring seven-year mission to "touch the sun" with repeated trips through the star's blazing outer atmosphere.
Launch of solar probe scrubbed by technical issue in terminal countdown
An automatic alarm in the final two minutes of the Delta 4-Heavy rocket's countdown early Saturday forced officials to delay blastoff with NASA's Parker Solar Probe by 24 hours.
Photos: Delta 4-Heavy revealed for solar probe launch
These photos taken Friday evening show the mobile gantry being wheeled away from a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral, hours before its scheduled blastoff with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.
Delta 4-Heavy launch timeline with Parker Solar Probe
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket, crowned by a solid-fueled upper stage kick motor, will send NASA's Parker Solar Probe on a speedy voyage through the inner solar system following liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
Watch the Parker Solar Probe pre-launch mission briefing
NASA held a pre-launch briefing for the Parker Solar Probe mission on Thursday, August 9, 2018, at the Kennedy Space Center.
VideoLive coverage: Delta 4-Heavy launches with NASA solar probe
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket climbed into space Sunday with NASA's Parker Solar Probe on a daring mission to explore the atmosphere of the sun. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral occurred at 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT).
Parker Solar Probe cleared for launch to ‘touch the sun’
NASA managers Thursday cleared the $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe for launch early Saturday on a daring mission to "touch the sun," repeatedly flying through its outer atmosphere to find out why the blazing corona is millions of degrees hotter than our star's visible surface.