
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket lifted a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) classified payload to orbit for the NRO Launch-82 (NROL-82) mission on Apr. 26. The launch from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. was the first U.S. Space Force (USSF) National Security Space Launch (NSSL) this year and the NRO's 18th mission from Vandenberg since 2006, per USSF's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). The NRO has relied on the Delta IV Heavy rocket for lofting the agency's weightiest…