Delta 4-Heavy fires up the night on second flight 11/10/07 ~ 8:50pm Homepage       Launch Photos In one of the great launches of the past decade, the massive 24-story Delta 4-Heavy rocket - two-thirds the height of the Saturn V and about the same size and power of the Saturn 1B of the Apollo days - fires to life, quite literally speaking, on its second flight. Nearly three years after its first ended with a dummy satellite nearly 10,000 miles short of its target orbit, this time the 23rd and last Defense Support Program (DSP-23) missile-warning satellite was deployed flawlessly over six hours later. Tower roll and remote camera setup
					The massive fireball is created by igniting hydrogen:
				From a special photographer viewing area just three miles from the pad: