WATCH: ULA successfully launches Delta IV Heavy rocket from Florida’s Space Coast

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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — United Launch Alliance successfully launched a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral on Thursday.

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The company sent a classified spy satellite into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. Space Force.

Liftoff happened at 5:18 a.m.

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It was supposed to launch at 3:25 a.m., but ULA said weather conditions pushed it back.

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