Author Topic: Delta IV Heavy - NROL-70 - CCSFS SLC-37B - 9 April 2024 (16:53 UTC) (Read 83789 times)

Vahe231991 · « **on:** 04/04/2023 01:53 am »

Final Delta IV and Delta IV Heavy launch
~~Launch 28 March 18:45:00 UTC (2:45 pm EDT)~~.

From Spaceflight Now:

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Both Delta 4-Heavy rockets left to fly will blast off from pad 37B at Cape Canaveral on missions for the NRO. The final Delta 4-Heavy will launch the NROL-70 mission in 2024. [March 22]

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #1 on:** 05/11/2023 03:15 pm »

https://twitter.com/_mgde_/status/1656677068069916672

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Feast your eyes, folks! Special delivery from ULA’s Rocketship.

This is the last time we will ever see fresh Delta IV cores passing through Cape Canaveral before Delta’s imminent retirement.

📸 - @NASASpaceflight

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #2 on:** 05/11/2023 03:20 pm »

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1656674475063246851

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The @ulalaunch Rocketship has delivered the final Delta IV Heavy to Cape. It's a bittersweet moment, but she will deliver more Vulcans soon enough.

📷 for @NASASpaceflight

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #3 on:** 05/11/2023 05:23 pm »

twitter.com/_mgde_/status/1656702867359645705

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And off she goes: the last ever center core for the Delta IV family.

However, Rocketship has since been closed up so it looks like the side cores will wait to be moved until a later date.

📸 - @NASASpaceflight

https://twitter.com/_mgde_/status/1656704934002278405

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SOFI lookin’ P H R E S H

📸 - @NASASpaceflight

GewoonLukas_ · « **Reply #4 on:** 06/20/2023 08:30 pm »

Scheduled for February 2024:

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ULA’s penultimate Delta IV Heavy to launch with NROL-68 mission

June 20, 2023

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Following Wednesday’s mission, ULA has only one Delta IV launch remaining: NROL-70 is currently scheduled to lift off from the same launch pad at Cape Canaveral next February.

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GewoonLukas_ · « **Reply #5 on:** 07/22/2023 04:11 pm »

A presentation from the US Space Force has this launch for March 1st 2024

zubenelgenubi · « **Reply #6 on:** 11/03/2023 08:08 pm »

Are all the launch vehicle stages, and fairing, already on site?

Any outward signs of the launch campaign proceeding?

GewoonLukas_ · « **Reply #7 on:** 12/20/2023 05:32 am »

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Sentinel-2B captured this wonderful image of the Space Coast earlier today.

If you look closely at SLC-37 you can see what appears to be the final Delta IV Heavy rolling out to the pad. Can you confirm @torybruno?

https://twitter.com/Harry__Stranger/status/1737269512536543387?t=cnwqpvN024c2adQiQWG7gg&s=19

GewoonLukas_ · « **Reply #8 on:** 01/30/2024 08:52 pm »

Rocket is vertical inside the MST at the pad:

(Screenshot from the latest KSC Flyover)

edkyle99 · « **Reply #9 on:** 01/31/2024 04:08 am »

Quote from: GewoonLukas_ on 01/30/2024 08:52 pm

Rocket is vertical inside the HIF at the pad:

Vertical inside the Mobile Service Tower at the pad. The HIF is the Horizontal Integration Building to the south where the vehicle was assembled prior to rollout to the pad.

- Ed Kyle

catdlr · « **Reply #10 on:** 01/31/2024 04:46 am »

Quote from: edkyle99 on 01/31/2024 04:08 am

Quote from: GewoonLukas_ on 01/30/2024 08:52 pm
Rocket is vertical inside the HIF at the pad:
Vertical inside the Mobile Service Tower at the pad. The HIF is the Horizontal Integration Building to the south where the vehicle was assembled prior to rollout to the pad.

- Ed Kyle

Ed is the new Jim.

Zed_Noir · « **Reply #11 on:** 02/01/2024 10:55 am »

Quote from: catdlr on 01/31/2024 04:46 am

Quote from: edkyle99 on 01/31/2024 04:08 am
Quote from: GewoonLukas_ on 01/30/2024 08:52 pm
Rocket is vertical inside the HIF at the pad:
Vertical inside the Mobile Service Tower at the pad. The HIF is the Horizontal Integration Building to the south where the vehicle was assembled prior to rollout to the pad.

- Ed Kyle

Ed is the new Jim.

Not quite. His replies is much lengthier than the usual @Jim replies.

GewoonLukas_ · « **Reply #12 on:** 02/09/2024 03:00 pm »

NextSpaceflight (Updated February 9th)
Launch NET March 14th, 2024
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/142

GewoonLukas_ · « **Reply #13 on:** 02/21/2024 11:10 am »

NROL-123's launchdate (March 20th) has been announced by the NRO, but NROL-70's has not. Slip to the right incoming?

Quote from: GewoonLukas_ on 02/21/2024 11:03 am

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LAUNCH UPDATE: #NROL123 is scheduled to launch on a @RocketLab #Electron rocket from @NASAWallops March 20!

#AboveandBeyond

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Answer: Yes

NextSpaceflight (Updated February 21st)
Launch NET March 2024
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/142

Jim · « **Reply #14 on:** 02/21/2024 01:32 pm »

Saw two C-5s at the Skid Strip. I bet the payload was delivered.

Newton_V · « **Reply #15 on:** 02/21/2024 01:46 pm »

Quote from: Jim on 02/21/2024 01:32 pm

Saw two C-5s at the Skid Strip. I bet the payload was delivered.

Something else, I'm guessing..

Targeteer · « **Reply #16 on:** 02/21/2024 10:15 pm »

Quote from: Jim on 02/21/2024 01:32 pm

Saw two C-5s at the Skid Strip. I bet the payload was delivered.

Would delivery of a presumably high cost DoD payload 1 month before launch be historically typical?

Targeteer · « **Reply #17 on:** 02/21/2024 10:24 pm »

According to this, 1 of the C-5C "outsized payload" birds (68-0216) flew from the Cape to California today.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae051d

Jim · « **Reply #18 on:** 02/21/2024 11:22 pm »

returning the container to VSFB.

GewoonLukas_ · « **Reply #19 on:** 02/25/2024 09:40 pm »

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I spy with my little eye a Delta IV getting ready to fly…

https://twitter.com/TheOldManPar/status/1761866897375494570?t=M0buL5Jnm_RG0eIjLfT3PQ&s=19