Ending an era in U.S. rocketry, United Launch Alliance fired off its 16th and final triple-core Delta 4 Heavy Tuesday, launching a classified spy satellite in the last hurrah of a storied family of ...
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 is ...
Delta IV Heavy rocket has 3 Delta IV core stages. Each rocket engine produces up to 702,000 pounds of thrust. The engines aren't small: Just one engine weighs about 14,876 pounds and is 17 feet in ...