Vulcan Centaur

By Irene Klotz, Vivienne Machi
America’s launch sites are undergoing massive transformations to support a new era in space.
Operations & Safety

By Vivienne Machi, Irene Klotz
U.S. launch diversity returns with the United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket’s first Space Force flight.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The Vulcan rocket's national security space launch debut orbited the U.S. military's first on-orbit experiment for position, navigation and timing in nearly five decades.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket is poised to join SpaceX’s Falcon fleet in launching the country’s highest priority national security space missions.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The Vulcan rocket will deploy USSF-106 to geosynchronous orbit from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, pending range approval.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
Amazon plans to use the satellites to roll out high-speed internet service later this year.
Satellites

By Irene Klotz, Vivienne Machi
United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno discusses launch campaign details, the future of Vulcan and the National Security Space Launch program market.
Check 6

By Irene Klotz, Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force awarded seven of nine missions in its next series of high-priority national security missions to SpaceX.
Space Symposium

By Vivienne Machi
The service has supported a steady growth in its launch cadence and does not see it slowing down in the near future.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
“It’s time to be able to move through space at will and to be able to defend ourselves when we are attacked,” ULA CEO Tory Bruno says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Vivienne Machi
ULA flew two flights for its Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle in 2024, on Jan. 8 and Oct. 4.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau, Vivienne Machi
With a second successful flight, United Launch Alliance’s new rocket is ready to take on military and commercial missions.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The Vulcan Centaur rocket's only post-launch issue was a "variant observation" in one of the first stage's two solid rocket boosters, ULA says.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The mission is intended to complete certification of the two-stage rocket by the U.S. Space Force for national security missions beginning by year’s end.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Cert-2, slated to launch between 6-9 a.m. EDT Oct. 4, follows Vulcan’s Jan. 8 inaugural Cert-1 flight.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is targeting Oct. 4 to launch its second Vulcan-Centaur rocket.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The next 18 months will be busy for United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) newest rocket, and no one is more aware of that fact than Tory Bruno.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The mission, known as Certification-2 (Cert-2), follows Vulcan’s successful debut on the Cert-1 flight in January.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The ULA Vulcan-Centaur rocket being prepared to fly a dual-purpose mission this fall arrived at Cape Canaveral on June 24 ahead of a planned September launch.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
It will take some luck for Boeing to be ready to fly its first ISS crew rotation mission as early as February.
Space

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser lifting body spaceplane "Tenacity" and its Shooting Star cargo module are being readied for shipment to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Space

By Irene Klotz
What began as an operational ballistic missile evolved into one of the most successful and storied space launch vehicles.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Fully funded and hardware-rich, Blue Origin readies for orbital operations.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic is preparing to send its Peregrine lunar lander toward a destructive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere on Jan. 18.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The loss of the Peregrine lunar lander mission was unfortunate but irrelevant for Cert-1 objectives.
Space