Delta IV Heavy launch of the classified NROL-15 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral, believed to be a KH-11 electro-optical imaging satellite. It was the first flight of the upgraded RS-68A engines on the Delta IV Heavy.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 6th
- of 16 Delta IV Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 29 June 2012, 13:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2012-034
- Launches in 2012
- 36th of 78
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