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ULA Prepares Delta IV Heavy Rocket for Launch with NRO Payload on Aug. 26

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, August 19th, 2020

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ULA Prepares Delta IV Heavy Rocket for Launch with NRO Payload on Aug. 26

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) said that it has fitted the NROL-44 payload onto a Delta IV heavy rocket to be launched on Aug. 26 (Photo by ULA)

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) of Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] is preparing a Delta IV Heavy rocket with a classified National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload, NROL-44, for launch at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on Aug. 26. The final preparations come on the heels of ULA's Aug. 7 win in Phase 2 of the U.S. Air Force's launch service procurement (LSP) program for National Security Space Launch (NSSL) (Defense Daily, Aug. 7). ULA received a $337 million…

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