This evening, the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will host the much-anticipated first engine firing test for the new Vulcan Centaur rocket.
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On March 29, an explosion occurred during the testing of the Centaur V upper stage of United Launch Alliance's (ULA) new Vulcan rocket at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
On March 9th, ULA’s new rocket, Vulcan, was moved from the Vertical Integration Facility to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in preparation for the Vulcan Centaur's first launch, which is expected to take place no earlier than May 4.
United Launch Alliance is nearing completion of the development of the next-generation Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle and sets path for its first launch early next year.
Missions carried by both United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX are targeting liftoff on Thursday, August 4, setting up the first double header from an increasingly busy spaceport.
STARLINER IS AT THE PAD
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is perched atop Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41 for Thursday's launch of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner on the second Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) in support of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
Teams with NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance held a launch readiness review yesterday, (May 17), for Orbital Flight Test-2, which will send an uncrewed Starliner on a shakeout cruise to the orbiting lab. Everything went well, keeping Starliner on course to lift off atop a ULA Atlas V rocket on Thursday at 6:54pm EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
United Launch Alliance a year ago was projecting a 2021 debut for Vulcan Centaur, a heavy-lift rocket powered by the BE-4 engine made by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is in final preparations to launch the USSF-8 mission for the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command. The launch is on track for Jan. 21
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Space Test Program (STP)-3 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command lifted off on Dec. 7 at 5:19am from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.