A United Launch Alliance Delta IV conducted a morning launch ... marking the end of an era in US satellite reconnaissance. The Keyhole program began with a series of technology demonstration ...

These payloads have primarily included NRO eavesdropping satellites and the massive bus-size Keyhole ... three missions on Delta IV Heavy. The Delta IV launched a commercial satellite on its ...

A powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket launched a classified ... the satellite likely being the newest member of the NRO’s Keyhole spy satellite network. Other clues lie in the warnings sent out ...

The Delta II was a workhorse for the Air Force, NASA, and the commercial satellite ... IV rocket, which retired in 2005, to loft NRO eavesdropping satellites and the NRO's massive bus-size ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — United Launch Alliance successfully launched a Delta IV Heavy carrying the National Reconnaissance Office's classified spy satellite. The original launch window was set to ...

On Jan. 19, 2019, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launched the clandestine NROL-71 spy satellite on a secret mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. See amazing photos ...

A Delta IV rocket bearing the Air Force’s 70th anniversary “breaking barriers” logo roared from Cape Canaveral Saturday night to deliver a military communications satellite to orbit.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a Delta IV rocket on Wednesday evening, carrying the eighth satellite in the US Air Force’s Wideband Global Satcom system. The rocket lifted off with ...

The last Delta IV Heavy mission is classified again, an NRO satellite that will “strengthen the NRO’s ability to provide a wide-range of timely intelligence information to national decision ...

A classified U.S. National Reconnaissance Office KH-11 “Keyhole ... satellite was successfully launched into low Earth orbit from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., on Aug. 28 by a United Launch Alliance ...

Standing at approximately 23 stories tall, the Delta IV Heavy ascended into the sky amidst partly cloudy conditions, as seen in a live webcast by ULA. The mission aimed to deploy a satellite for ...