News Archive / Tagged: NROL 71

• Gallery: NROL-71 mission finally gets underway

  Derek RichardsonJanuary 20th, 2019

  After several scrubbed attempts, United Launch Alliance was finally able to launch its Delta IV Heavy rocket with the secretive NROL-71 payload.

• NROL-71 kicks off ULA’s 2019 launch manifest

  Patrick AttwellJanuary 19th, 2019

  LOMPOC, Calif. — United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully completed its first flight of 2019. Today's launch utilized the largest rocket in the Colorado-based company's arsenal to send a classified payload into space. In doing so the company finally managed to move past a saga of delays.

• NROL-71 launch date now under review

  Jason RhianJanuary 5th, 2019

  LOMPOC, Calif. -- After numerous delays it now appears that the flight of a Delta IV Heavy rocket will be pushed back even further.

• 2019 US launch manifest to open with Delta IV Heavy, Falcon 9 flights

  Derek RichardsonDecember 30th, 2018

  The United States' 2019 orbital launch manifest looks to be just as busy as 2018 with the first two missions of the year poised to be spillover from 2018.

• ‘Hold hold hold’: NROL-71 mission scrubbed

  Derek RichardsonDecember 9th, 2018

  LOMPOC, Calif. — Just seconds before the planned liftoff of a Delta IV Heavy rocket with the NROL-71 payload, an automatic abort of the launch sequence was triggered.

• Classified: A review of US defense missions launched in 2018

  Patrick AttwellDecember 5th, 2018

  LOMPOC, Calif. -- 2018 has seen five payloads launched for the Department of Defense. Two of these missions were classified and one failed. With the upcoming flight of a ULA Delta Heavy with the NROL-71, SpaceFlight Insider takes a look back at the DoD's 2018 launch manifest.