Final Delta 4-Medium Rocket Rolled Out To Cape Canaveral Launch Pad Written 10 June 2019
10 June 2019
Spaceflight Now reported that ground crews last week “finished the initial build-up of the last ‘single stick’ medium-lift variant of United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral...in preparation for liftoff with a GPS navigation satellite July 25.” The rocket’s first and second stages “emerged from ULA’s Horizontal Integration Facility on May 28,” before “a hydraulic lift raised the rocket vertical inside the launch pad’s mobile gantry May 29, and workers installed a pair of solid-fueled boosters on each side of the orange first stage May 31 and June 3.” (Image: Credit: NASA)
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Spaceflight Now reported that ground crews last week “finished the initial build-up of the last ‘single stick’ medium-lift variant of United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral...in preparation for liftoff with a GPS navigation satellite July 25.” The rocket’s first and second stages “emerged from ULA’s Horizontal Integration Facility on May 28,” before “a hydraulic lift raised the rocket vertical inside the launch pad’s mobile gantry May 29, and workers installed a pair of solid-fueled boosters on each side of the orange first stage May 31 and June 3.” (Image: Credit: NASA)
Full Story (Spaceflight Now)