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Delta 4 passes countdown rehearsal before Orion launch

November 6, 2014

A countdown dress rehearsal and rocket fueling exercise was completed at Cape Canaveral for next month’s launch of NASA’s Orion crew module atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy booster.

Orion’s Delta 4-Heavy rocket moved to launch pad

October 1, 2014

The booster rocket that will launch NASA’s next-generation Orion space capsule on a two-orbit, four-hour shakedown cruise in December has been rolled to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

Space surveillance craft launched by Delta 4 rocket

July 28, 2014

A pair of covertly developed inspector satellites to monitor collision threats and nefarious activities in geosynchronous orbit for U.S. Strategic Command blasted off aboard a Delta 4 rocket.

Waterside view of Delta 4 GPS 2F-6 Launch

May 16, 2014

Spectacular video of the twilight launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket carrying the GPS 2F-6 navigation satellite on May 16, 2014.