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    The Delta IV Heavy (Delta 9250H) was an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle, the largest type of the Delta IV family. It was the world's third highest-capacity...
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    masses: the Medium (which had four configurations) and Heavy. As of April 2024, the Delta IV Heavy has been retired after its last mission in April 2024...
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    than 300 Delta rockets were launched with a 95% success rate. The series was phased out in favor of the Vulcan Centaur, with the Delta IV Heavy rocket's...
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    maintenance of five launch pads and a number of variants of the Delta II, Delta IV, Delta IV Heavy, and Atlas V rockets. As a result of increasing costs by ULA...
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    The Delta IV Heavy (Delta 9250H) was an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle. When it was in service from 2004 to 2024, it was the largest type in the...
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    Department of Defense to conduct NSSL launches: Atlas V, Delta IV Heavy, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. Delta IV Medium was retired in August 2019. After a two-year...
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    modified to support the Delta IV launch vehicle family, which used the pad for ten launches from 2006 until 2022. The last Delta IV launched in September...
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    DCSS (for Delta IV Heavy). After the retirement of the Delta IV-M and Delta IV-M+ rockets, the DCSS was used solely on the Delta IV Heavy in its 5-meter...
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    Vulcan Centaur (redirect from Vulcan Heavy)
    intelligence agencies. It will replace ULA's existing heavy-lift Atlas V and Delta IV Heavy rockets. Vulcan Centaur will also be used for commercial...
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    Delta IV, led to the cancellation of the Delta III program. The upgraded boosters would still find use on the Delta II, leading to the Delta II Heavy...
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    Retrieved 19 December 2020. Space Videos (29 June 2012). "Launch of Delta IV Heavy with NROL-15 Payload" – via YouTube. "USA 237". N2YO.com. Retrieved...
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    simultaneously. The Delta IV Mobile Service Tower is 330 ft (100 m) tall, and fitted to service all Delta IV configurations, including the Delta IV Heavy. Plans are...
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  • and 18,000 kg to Trans Lunar Injection Calculated as 30% more than Delta IV Heavy, per sources Comparison of orbital launch systems List of orbital launch...
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    2023). "ULA's penultimate Delta IV Heavy launches NROL-68 mission". NASASpaceFlight. Retrieved 22 June 2023. "Delta IV Heavy NROL-70". Retrieved 10 April...
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  • Delta IV was a group of five expendable launch systems in the Delta rocket family introduced in the early 2000s. Originally designed by Boeing's Defense...
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  • launches in the Thor/Delta family consisted of one Delta IV Heavy each year from 2020 through 2024. This followed the retirement of Delta II in 2018 and single-stick...
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    1990s with the goal of producing a simpler, less-costly, heavy-lift engine for the Delta IV launch system. Two versions of the engine have been produced:...
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    as strap-on boosters, conceptually similar to Delta IV Heavy launcher and proposals for the Atlas V Heavy and Russian Angara A5V. This triple first stage...
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    Titan IV was a family of heavy-lift space launch vehicles developed by Martin Marietta and operated by the United States Air Force from 1989 to 2005. Launches...
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    IFT-3. Additionally, the final launch of a Delta family rocket occurred in April 2024 with a Delta IV Heavy. Following 2020s' trend, it is expected that...
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  • Launched in 2001". Retrieved 27 May 2015. Graham, William (11 March 2011). "Delta IV dodges upper level winds and launches with NROL-27 satellite". NASASpaceFlight...
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    was discussed. As late as mid-2019, NASA considered use of Delta IV Heavy and Falcon Heavy to launch a crewed Orion mission given SLS delays. Given the...
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  • Retrieved 24 March 2024. Davenport, Justin (2 April 2024). "Launch Roundup: Delta IV Heavy swan song, Falcon 9 and Soyuz launches on tap for last week of March"...
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  • the more advanced Delta IV program and the continuing success of the Delta II, left the Delta III as an interim vehicle. Like the Delta II, the first stage...
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    Ariane Atlas Delta Long March R-7 R-14 R-36 Universal Rocket Zenit Others   Ariane 5   Atlas II   Atlas III   Atlas V   Delta II   Delta IV Heavy   Long March...
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    Common Booster Core (category Delta (rocket family))
    Canaveral Space Force Station on 20 November 2002. The first flight of the Delta IV Heavy, featuring three Common Booster Cores, was conducted on 21 December...
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    launches by the new Delta IV family of launch vehicles, utilizing a Common Core Booster for all its class sizes including the Delta IV (Heavy) launcher. After...
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    production for the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas V and the DCSS of the Delta IV. Three more versions are in development for the Exploration Upper Stage...
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    Base's Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6) aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy. In 2021, SpaceX reportedly won a $1.8 billion contract from the NRO...
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    Exploration Flight Test-1 (category Spacecraft launched by Delta IV rockets)
    was launched on December 5, 2014, at 12:05 UTC (7:05 am EST), by a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station...
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