Final flight of ULA's Delta IV Heavy, launching the classified NROL-70 payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral toward geostationary orbit and closing out the 60-year Delta rocket program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 16th
- of 16 Delta IV Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 9 April 2024, 16:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2024-067
- Launches in 2024
- 69th of 263
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