A #video of a #Delta IV #rocket #launch carrying a GPS satellite to orbit.

#DeltaIV #DeltaRocket #RocketLaunch #Video

Sometimes when #rockets cross through a colder layer of air, their exhaust condenses, creating a #contrail.
The high-level #winds blow the contrail around, with different wind directions at different altitudes, often producing a #corkscrew effect, as in this #DeltIVHeavy #launch from 2016.

#DeltaIV #UnitedLaunchAlliace #ULA

After the retirement of NASA's space shuttle in 2011, the Delta IV Heavy became the most powerful operational rocket in the world, with a lift capacity of nearly 29 metric tons to low-Earth orbit. Only a handful of government-developed vehicles, including NASA's Saturn V lunar rocket and Russia's Energia vehicle, had more lift capacity, Ars Technica reports:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/the-most-metal-of-rockets-has-gone-into-the-great-mosh-pit-in-the-sky/

#rockets #nasa #deltaiv #space

Once again, the final #DeltaIVHeavy #launch is upon us.
The #DeltaIV has always been, in my opinion, the classiest looking EELV.

The #Delta IV and its predecessors have made incredible contributions to #science and #spaceflight.

A #ThorDelta launched #Echo1, the first comm #satellite. #DeltaII launched missions to #Mars and began building the #GPS system.

The Delta family will be missed.