US reconnaissance satellite launched in final flight of Delta rocket family

Highland Gold Maple making syrup from Cape Breton woods for 25 years | SaltWire #capebreton #maple - The U.S. Space Force and a Boeing-Lockheed joint venture sent a secret reconnaissance payload to space on Tuesday atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket, the last flight of a workhorse launch brand dating back to the early 1960s.

It marks the 16th and final flight of a Delta IV Heavy and the last of any of the Delta family of rockets, a space launch dynasty that originated from a modified intermediate-range ballistic missile and grew to include about two dozen increasingly powerful variants. Among other space science missions, Delta II rockets launched the twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity in 2003, and a Delta IV sent the Parker Solar Probe to space in 2018.

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