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  • Watch NRO's spy satellite blast off to space at 1:30PM Eastern

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    06.11.2016

    United Launch Alliance (ULA) has a pretty significant launch scheduled for today. It will attempt to send the spy satellite-carrying Delta-IV Heavy rocket to space again after scrubbing its original launch on June 9th due to bad weather. This is only the massive rocket's ninth flight after the first one blasted off in 2004. The Delta-IV Heavy is capable of packing 14,900 pounds of payload and can ferry satellites to geosynchronous orbit. While we know that it's an NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) mission codenamed NROL-37, its other details are actually classified.