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Feb. 8, 2023

 DLA Energy Fiscal Year 2022 Fact Book is online 

                    FORT BELVOIR, Va.  —                                                For the past 45 years, DLA Energy has compiled a snapshot of the facts, figures, and financial information from the previous fiscal year.            

Dec. 19, 2022

 DLA Energy propels rocket with NOAA and NASA payloads 

                    FORT BELVOIR, Va. —                                                DLA Energy supported the last launch of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, Nov. 10. The rocket carried the NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System-2 and NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of Inflatable Decelerator.            

Dec. 10, 2022

 DLA Energy powers NASA Orion spacecraft  

                    FORT BELVOIR, Va. —                                                After its historic 25-day, 1.4-million-mile journey that ventured beyond the Moon, NASA’s Orion returned to Earth on Dec. 11. To power its journey, DLA Energy supplied the uncrewed Orion capsule with 438 pounds of high purity hydrazine, 6,245 pounds of Monomethyl Hydrazine and 10,670 pounds of Nitrogen Tetroxide Mon-3 grade propellants.            

Jan. 13, 2022

 New facility provides DLA Energy Aerospace and Finance employees safer, healthier workplace 

                    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas —                                                A new operations center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, will provide 104 DLA Energy Aerospace and Finance employees a well-equipped space to manage the worldwide acquisition of missile fuels, liquid propellants and other bulk industrial chemicals and gases, and separately their financial operations.            

Oct. 14, 2021

 DLA Energy Commander visits Texas aerostat site 

                    EL INDIO, Texas —                                                Two miles east of the Rio Grande, high above the desolate South Texas chaparral land, tethered surveillance balloons, filled with helium from DLA Energy Aerospace keep watch. Observing the large, low-altitude aircraft, a DLA Energy team visited the Tethered Aerostat Radar System site at El Indio, Texas, Sept. 29.             

April 28, 2021

 DLA Energy supports National Reconnaissance Office rocket launch 

                    VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. —                                                A Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a national security payload designed, built, and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office launched from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California April 26. DLA Energy supplied the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that powered the three United Launch Alliance rocket engines creating a combined total of more than 2.1 million pounds of thrust needed for liftoff.            

Feb. 23, 2021

 DLA Energy rocket propellant fuels NASA rover to Red Planet 

                                Fueled by DLA Energy-supplied liquid oxygen and rocket propellant, NASA’s rover Perseverance safely touched down on Mars on Feb. 18 after a seven-month, 292-million-mile journey. Using thrusters fired with DLA Energy hydrazine, the $2.7 billion rover landed in an ancient lake bed called Jezero Crater. The Perseverance is on a two-year mission to find evidence of past life on Mars.            

Aug. 6, 2020

 DLA Energy fuels Mars rocket launch 

                                Carrying equipment destined for Mars, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket fueled by DLA Energy blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, July 30. The rocket carried the $2.7 billion NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in to space on a 300-million-mile voyage.            

Aug. 27, 2018

 Aerospace Energy supports NASA’s Parker Solar Probe 

                    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida —                                                The Aerospace Energy division of Defense Logistics Agency Energy provided the High Purity Hydrazine for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission which launched on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy Rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, Aug. 12. On a journey to study the sun, the probe carried 178 pounds of HPH and the rocket carried almost 165 pounds of HPH in its upper stage.            

March 16, 2018

 Aerospace Energy supports medical research 

                    BOSTON —                                                When crucial medical research equipment was inoperative because it needed helium to function, a Harvard University associate professor turned to the Defense Logistics Agency Energy for support.             

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