Starship Expansion Plans Pinch ULA’s Vulcan Activities

Cape Canaveral

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket (background) and a SpaceX Falcon 9 prepared for launch in April 2022 on neighboring pads at the Kennedy Space Center on the Eastern Range, where numbers and types of launches are growing.

Credit: Jamie Peer/NASA
When Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith turned over command of what is now Space Launch Delta 45, he left his successor a mission: Prepare the Eastern Range, which includes Cape Canaveral SFS and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, to support 48 launches a year by 2020. Monteith launched the “Drive to 48” campaign...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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