On this date in 2024, United Launch Alliance's next-generation Vulcan rocket flew its first certification mission at 2:18 a.m. from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

On this date, Jan. 8, 2024, United Launch Alliance's next-generation Vulcan rocket flew its first certification mission at 2:18 a.m. from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ...

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 ...

The Vulcan Centaur is awaiting certification for national security space missions. "I mean a squadron of lightning fast, long range, lethal interceptors. To use a naval analogy, we need destroyers in ...

Tory Bruno, CEO of the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture United Launch Alliance, expects to receive national security certification for his Vulcan space rocket within the next few months.

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.