 This is your Tuesday space pod we're joined by Tim Dodd the everyday astronaut here to talk about a rocket I thought was gone the Delta 2 Tim. What's up? Well, yeah, it's kind of well sort of still some saddish news if you're a fan of the Delta rocket We're coming up on the pen ultimate launch There's only one more after this one of United Launch Alliance's most turquoise rocket the Delta 2 now This thing I'm a pretty big fan of this of this little thing I mean, it's it's a smaller rocket than some of ULA's other rockets and on Friday, November 10th at 947 UTC Or 1 47 a.m. Pacific local United Launch Alliance will be launching the first of a pair of polar orbiting weather satellites up for the NOAA Now this launch has been delayed a number of times already It was supposed to learn launch March 16th of this year and then again it was supposed to launch September 21st But nevertheless, we're hoping that launches now here in November 10th So I like to think of this as a plucky little rocket In my opinion, it's the most curable of all rockets because look at all of those solid rocket boosters They can sling on that thing they can they throw nine SRBs on this thing sometimes and that's actually no exception for this particular launch because That's what this launch will be doing will be having nine of those SRBs and it just looks so so curable I love it. I just I'm very fond of this and these these solid rocket boosters cause a kind of famous explosion in 1997 which Is some of the biggest fireworks we've like ever seen I think this is just beautiful and it's like destructive power Just raining fire down on the Cape Yes, like melting cars and crazy now this happened in 1997 Yeah, so Fingers crossed that nothing like this will happen again, but the belt the Delta's been in service since 1989 It's seen 153 launches in total and a hundred and fifty one successes. So it's a very reliable rocket And again, it's not very big. It's only about 39 meters or 125 foot tall 2.4 meters wide, which is about 8 feet And despite its small size one of my favorite things one of the reasons I love the Delta 2 as it's been It's thrown it's flown almost everything to Mars, which is crazy because you think of Mars It's needing a big crazy heavy rocket, but you know most of the things that we've actually sent to Mars are relatively light besides curiosity and Yeah, despite that the Delta's been what's flung most of the things towards Mars most of which is really cool So there will be one more launch with the Delta 2 and that will be the ISAT 2 next year Which is it will be launched on a 7300 series Delta 2 rocket and if these two rockets are fine This will be 100 consecutive successful launches in a row of the Delta 2 So so soak it up while you can you know This is kind of the end of an era for United Launch Alliance and for the Delta 2. Yep Thank you so much. I love the analogy with the Kerbal or at least the parallels with Kerbal That is I had never looked at it that way. That is kind of hilarious Also that video if you want to look at up the Delta 2 pad anomaly the public affairs officer of we've had an anomaly His always gives me every time. I'm like, yeah, you have it's a parent All right. Thank you so much rocket turned into fireworks. Yes, it did Thank you so much Tim Dodd the everyday astronaut if you like this and other space news Don't forget to like and subscribe the channel and when you're on YouTube hit the subscribe and little icon a little Doorbell icon to make sure that you get updates as to when we go live each week If you'd like to see our last week's show with the Brook Owens Fellows click right over here and we'll see you next week