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The Delta IV Heavy, which is currently the nation's largest unmanned rocket, is capable of lifting a maximum payload of about 50,000 pounds into low Earth orbit.
News - latimes.com 2011
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The Delta IV Heavy is the largest carrier rocket in the EELV fleet operated by ULA for the US military, and has been seen as a potential alternative to the Ares I as a Crew Launch Vehicle for Project Constellation.
NASASpaceFlight.com 2009
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The Delta IV Heavy rocket stands at 235-foot-tall, and its engines produced 2 million pounds of thrust, according to the 30th Space Wing of the U.S.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The three-engine Delta IV Heavy rocket, the tallest ever to be launched from the base, will be carrying a top-secret spy satellite for the U.S. government capable of snapping pictures so detailed it can distinguish the make and model of an automobile thousands of miles below, analysts say.
latimes.com - News 2011
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The 72m-high Delta IV Heavy was carrying a classified satellite for the National
BBC News - Home 2011
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So, if you ever had a need and the money! to put your truck, trailer and payload into space, the Delta IV Heavy would be just the ticket.
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The three-engine Delta IV Heavy rocket, the tallest ever to be launched from the base, will be carrying a top-secret spy satellite for the U.S. government capable of snapping pictures detailed enough to distinguish the make and model of an automobile thousands of miles below, analysts say.
latimes.com - News 2011
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Just remember: If your truck ever had a tough time pulling its gross combined weight up a hill, the Delta IV Heavy generates more than 100,000 times the Ram's power output to lift the near-equivalent weight into space.
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The Delta IV Heavy has sufficient lift to put an unmanned Orion into low Earth orbit for two orbits, before it will attempt a reentry into the atmosphere and then splash down into the ocean.
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For that, you need a heavy booster like the Delta IV Heavy, which became the largest rocket ever launched from the
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