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  • Space Systems Command, ULA Launch Classified National Security Payload to Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems Command, ULA Launch Classified National Security Payload to Orbit

    Space Systems Command has launched another National Reconnaissance Office’s national security mission to geosynchronous earth orbit onboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The NROL-68 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, carrying a classified spy satellite payload for the U.S. government, SSC said. “The […] More

  • ULA Sets Dec. 18 as New Launch Date for NRO Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Sets Dec. 18 as New Launch Date for NRO Mission

    United Launch Alliance rescheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 18, the launch of a National Reconnaissance Office payload aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket. The NROL-71 mission will still lift off from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as originally planned, the company said Thursday. ULA initially scheduled the launch for Dec. 7 but […] More

  • NASA Solar Probe to Launch Aboard ULA Heavy Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Solar Probe to Launch Aboard ULA Heavy Rocket

    A NASA spacecraft designed to gather information about the sun is scheduled to take off no earlier than Aug. 4 aboard the United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will determine how heat and energy move through the sun’s atmosphere by flying directly […] More