Upgraded Delta IV Heavy launches NRO payload
Submit on Friday, June 29th, 2012 22:59
Rocket: Delta IV Heavy; Payload: NROL-15; Date: 29 June 2012, 1315 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The classified payload, carried for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, was successfully placed into its target orbit. To independent observers, this was a relatively mysterious mission as it appears to have required a specially designed modification of the rocket’s first-stage engines.
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