Editor's note: FLORIDA TODAY's Space Team was at Cape Canaveral covering the final launch for ULA's Delta IV Heavy rocket when ULA called a scrub at 2:47 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 28. Next attempt ...
Delta IV Heavy rocket. One is capable of crusing down the highway with a gross combined weight rating (vehicle, passengers and trailer) of 25,400 pounds. The other is easily capable of lifting ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – It wouldn't be a final Delta IV Heavy rocket launch without the wait. On Tuesday, United Launch Alliance completed the bittersweet sendoff, marking the last mission of the Delta ...
The GEM 63XL variant used on the Vulcan rocket is derived from smaller boosters that flew on the Atlas V, Delta IV, Delta III, and Delta II rockets. The last failure of such a booster, a GEM 40 ...
Teams turned around and got the rocket off at 5:47 p.m. Wednesday ... two Atlas V’s and the final Delta IV Heavy. ULA, though, has a third Vulcan Centaur already getting ready for its first ...
It's the final countdown for Delta IV Heavy, United Launch Alliance's powerful rocket. And it's one you won't want to miss. The Delta IV Heavy rocket, which had been dubbed by ULA as "the most ...