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 Alliances Delta Heavy IV rocket launch from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for the final time. The rocket carries the NROL-70 mission for ...

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 ...

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 ...