Air Force delays two upcoming ULA launch missions due to component anomalies

By Courtney Albon / July 18, 2019 at 11:34 AM
The Air Force has delayed two upcoming United Launch Alliance missions after discovering an anomaly with a component shared by the company's Delta IV and Atlas V rockets. The company announced the first delay July 11, telling reporters that the planned July 17 Atlas V launch of the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite would be rescheduled to sometime after August 8. Then this week, ULA revealed that a second launch -- this time an Atlas V mission carrying a...

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