Rocket Launch Tonight - Delta IV Heavy

[roberth]

https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-tel...-space-tv.html

Editor's note: United Launch Alliance is now targeting 8:09 p.m. EST (0109 GMT) for the launch of a Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the classified NROL-44 satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

From ULA:

Rocket: Delta IV Heavy
Mission: NROL-44 Launch
Date: Dec. 10
Launch Time: 8:00 p.m. EST

Launch Location: Space Launch Complex-37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

[BushMasterBoy]

[roberth]

Polling is complete, final checks.

Very cool

[BushMasterBoy]

Mission is successful.

[theGinsue]

Mission is successful.

Well, the launch was successful but it's not a "successful" mission until the bird gets on orbit.

[Great-Kazoo]

Well, the launch was successful but it's not a "successful" mission until the bird gets on orbit.

I'm sure a few of us have been there, hypothetically

[BushMasterBoy]

The real success is classified. Declassification period is usually 50 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmZg7tvGN9o

[CS1983]

Growing up in FL, we got to see launches a lot. I was surfing about a mile south of the pier at Cocoa Beach when this Titan IV exploded. Night launches are the best. Lights up the coast for miles.