{"id":160820,"date":"2023-03-22T22:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T03:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/penultimate-delta-rocket-to-launch-next-month-on-ulas-first-mission-of-2023"},"modified":"2023-03-22T22:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T03:22:54","slug":"penultimate-delta-rocket-to-launch-next-month-on-ulas-first-mission-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/penultimate-delta-rocket-to-launch-next-month-on-ulas-first-mission-of-2023","title":{"rendered":"Penultimate Delta rocket to launch next month on ULA\u2019s first mission of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/penultimate-delta-rocket-to-launch-next-month-on-ulas-first-mission-of-20232.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>United Launch Alliance\u2019s second-to-last Delta 4-Heavy rocket is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral April 20 with a classified cargo for the U.S. government\u2019s spy satellite agency, a mission that will mark ULA\u2019s first flight of the year, officials announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>ULA and the National Reconnaissance Office, the customer for the national security mission, announced the target launch date Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is known as NROL-68, and is expected to loft a large surveillance satellite into geosynchronous orbit, joining a fleet of government-owned spacecraft designed to eavesdrop on the communications of adversaries and foreign powers. But the NRO does not disclose details about its missions, and independent analysts use information about the rocket\u2019s lift capability, trajectory, and similar past launches to predict the purpose of spy satellite missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Launch Alliance\u2019s second-to-last Delta 4-Heavy rocket is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral April 20 with a classified cargo for the U.S. government\u2019s spy satellite agency, a mission that will mark ULA\u2019s first flight of the year, officials announced this week. ULA and the National Reconnaissance Office, the customer for the national security [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,2028,1492,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-satellites","category-security","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}