United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy carried the classified NROL-44 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral, following months of scrubbed attempts dating back to August. It was the 12th flight of the Heavy configuration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 12th
- of 16 Delta IV Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 11 December 2020, 01:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2020-095
- Launches in 2020
- 104th of 114
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