as Vulcan Centaur seemed to perform well throughout the flight. The rocket ticked all the major boxes on schedule — jettisoning its two solid rocket boosters around two minutes after liftoff ...

With no normal customer payload, the mission is instead flying with inert, nondeployable payloads atop the Centaur ... the ...

The 200-foot Vulcan Centaur rocket could do more than just launch satellites to orbit. As the rocket awaits certification to launch military payloads, United Launch Alliance (ULA) suggests that Vulcan ...

ORLANDO, Florida—The U.S. Space Force anticipates launches from its two continental spaceports to increase by 25% to 30% over ...

Jeff Bezos’s commercial space company Blue Origin wrote itself into the history books on 16 January, with the successful ...

Due to an underperformance of the Atlas V booster, Centaur’s single burn ... Notably, the RL10 that will power the Centaur on the Vulcan will evolve to the RL10C-X. “ULA and Aerojet Rocketdyne ...

The first-stage booster made a recovery landing on land at Canaveral’s Landing Zone 1. Read more. Oct. 4: United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur on the Cert-2 mission at 7:25 a.m. Originally ...

Speaking to media at the Satellite 2020 conference in Washington, DC, CEO Tory Bruno previewed the end of United Launch Alliance’s current Atlas and Delta launch vehicles in favor of the new ...

We know landing the booster on our first try offshore in ... versions of which have already been flight proven on ULA’s new Vulcan Centaur rockets, which use two BE-4 engines.

Four years overdue, delayed by problems at Blue Origin getting the engine ready, by its own development issues, and by COVID, ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket finally made its first launch in early 2024.