Tag: Delta II

  • WorldView-2 launched via Delta II out of VAFB

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    DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite has been launched atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket on Thursday morning. The launch, which took place from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA at 11:51 (local) – slightly delayed from the scheduled T-0 due to a battery issue on the vehicle’s second stage. Launch Preview: The WorldView-2 spacecraft…

  • ULA successfully launch STSS-Demo via Delta II

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    The United Launch Alliance (ULA) launch of a Delta II rocket – carrying two STSS-Demo satellites for the US Missile Defense – has finally beaten the weather and launched at 8:20am local time from Cape Canaveral. Unless further launches are purchased, this will be the penultimate launch of a Delta II from Cape Canaveral. Launch Preview: The…

  • Last GPS IIR satellite launched on final SLC-17A Delta II

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    A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II has become the last rocket to lift off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 17A this morning, as it launched the twenty-first and last GPS IIR satellite for the US Air Force. The 2059-kilogram GPS IIR-21(M) satellite, also known as GPS IIRM-8, was deployed following a sixty-eight minute flight.…

  • Delta II launches penultimate GPS-IIR satellite

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    A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket has launched this morning, carrying GPS-IIR-20, the penultimate spacecraft of the current block of GPS satellites. Lift-off from Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral was on time, at the start of a window running from 08:34 to 08:49 GMT (04:34-04:49 EDT). Preview: GPS-IIR-20, which is also designated GPS-IIRM-7,…

  • Delta II launches with Kepler Planet-Finder Launch

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    The Delta II launch team at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station have launched NASA’s new Kepler observatory, a telescope designed to search for Earth-like terrestrial planets in the Cygnus and Lyra constellations. The initial three and half year mission launched at 10:49pm. EST from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.   Launch…

  • ULA Delta II launches on third attempt with NASA’s NOAA-N Prime

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    A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket has launched with the NASA NOAA-N Prime spacecraft at the third attempt to launch from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California – at 2:22am PST – following two scrubs due to technical issues. Problems with re-pressing first stage nitrogen – relating to a GSE solenoid – caused…