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VideoDelta 2 launch timeline with JPSS 1
A Delta 2 rocket boosted by nine strap-on motors and two liquid-fueled stages will launch NOAA's JPSS 1 weather satellite into a 511-mile-high (822-kilometer) orbit following liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
Photos: Delta 2 rocket revealed after mobile gantry rollback
Ground crews at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California retracted a mobile gantry away from the Delta 2 rocket Monday afternoon, revealing the 128-foot-tall (39-meter) booster on its launch pad awaiting liftoff with a new polar-orbiting weather observatory.
VideoLive coverage: Delta 2 launches from California on third try
A Delta 2 rocket lifted off from California's Central Coast Saturday after back-to-back scrubbed launch attempts earlier this week. The Delta 2 delivered the JPSS 1 weather satellite to orbit for NOAA.
Battery changeout delays weather satellite launch from California
The launch of a new U.S. weather satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California has been delayed at least four days to Nov. 14, allowing time for technicians to remove and replace a faulty battery on the payload's Delta 2 rocket, United Launch Alliance said Monday.
Polar-orbiting weather satellite joined up with Delta 2 rocket in California
The first in NOAA's new series of polar-orbiting weather satellites has been lifted atop United Launch Alliance's second-to-last Delta 2 rocket on a launch pad in California, ready for encapsulation and final checkouts ahead of a predawn launch set for Nov. 10.
SpaceX, ULA win NASA contracts to launch Earth observation satellites
NASA has selected SpaceX and United Launch Alliance to deliver to orbit a joint U.S.-European oceanography mission and the next land imaging satellite in the Landsat series on Falcon 9 and Atlas 5 rockets.
World’s largest methane-fueled rocket engine test-fired by Blue Origin
Blue Origin has conducted the first hotfire test of its BE-4 rocket engine in West Texas, a powerplant fueled by liquified natural gas and liquid oxygen that will power the company's heavy-lift New Glenn rocket and perhaps United Launch Alliance's next-generation Vulcan launcher, officials announced Thursday.
Photos: News media shots of the NROL-52 liftoff
Cape Canaveral was the point of origination for the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket and the classified NROL-52 payload.
Photos: Atlas 5 rocket powers NROL-52 payload to space
The Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral for its pre-dawn ascent to deploy the NROL-52 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Atlas 5 pierces the night to boost national security satellite into space
A covert communications relay station to route spy satellite data directly to users was successfully launched by a million-pound Atlas 5 rocket overnight.