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title: "NROL-68: United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches the Penultimate Delta IV Heavy Rocket"
description: A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 mission for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) lifted off on Nov. 10 at 1:49 a.m. PST from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
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## [NROL-68: United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches the Penultimate Delta IV Heavy Rocket](https://blog.ulalaunch.com/blog/united-launch-alliance-successfully-launches-the-penultimate-delta-iv-heavy-rocket)

 June 22, 2023

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 A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-68 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 on June. 22, 2023. Photo by United Launch Alliance

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-68 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off on June 22 at 5:18 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. To date, ULA has launched 156 times with 100 percent mission success. 

[Delta IV Heavy NROL-68 Launch Blog](https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/archived-launched/delta-iv-heavy-nrol-68)

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