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After first operational launch, here’s the next big test for ULA’s Vulcan rocket
In the near term, ULA will switch back to launching its soon-to-retire Atlas V rocket, the Vulcan rocket's predecessor. The company has 13 more Atlas Vs in its inventory, most of them sold to Amazon and Boeing to launch Kuiper Internet satellites and Starliner crew missions to the International Space Station.
ULA Vulcan rocket achieves liftoff in national security launch
United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur lifted off for the third time ever in an experimental launch to put navigation satellite in orbit
ULA’s Vulcan Rocket to Launch Mystery Payload on Debut Space Force Mission
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is gearing up for a long-awaited comeback, returning to secretive payload lifts for the National Security Space Launch program with its heavy-lift Vulcan Centaur rocket.
Vulcan Rocket Ushers in New Era of National Security Space Launch
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket carrying the USSF-106 mission for the United States Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) lifted off on Aug. 12 at 8:56 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
ULA Vulcan rocket to launch first national security mission
A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket is gearing up to carry a classified national security payload into space Tuesday night for the United States Space Force.
Bruno: First Military Launch of Vulcan Marks “New Era in National Space Security”
Vulcan rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral shortly before 9 p.m. on Tuesday for the U.S. Space Force USSF-106 mission in
US: United Launch Alliance Launches Vulcan Rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
United Launch Alliance successfully launched its first operational Vulcan rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, August 12, at 8:56 p.m. EDT. The rocket carried two military satellites into space as part of its first flight for the U.
ULA launches Vulcan rocket at Cape Canaveral
The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida just before 9:00 p.m. Eastern. On board were two national security satellites on behalf of the U.S. military.
ULA Vulcan cuts through night skies on landmark national security mission
United Launch Alliance knocked out its first Vulcan Centaur launch of the year on Tuesday night, and its first ever for the Space Force.

United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket blasts off on first Space Force-sanctioned flight

ULA's Vulcan is replacing the company's workhorse Atlas 5 rocket and the already-retired Delta 4 family of launchers.

Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch

The first two Vulcan test flights last year used a configuration of the rocket with two strap-on boosters to add an extra ...

What is the Vulcan? United Launch Alliance ushers in 'new era in national space security'

The Vulcan, the United Launch Alliance's newer rocket, got off the ground from Florida on its first national security mission for US Space Force.

Bright lights seen in the sky across western Pennsylvania believed to be Florida rocket launch

Across the region on Tuesday night, bright lights could be seen in the sky, and it was a rocket launch out of Florida.

Perseid meteor, Vulcan rocket launch or UFO; white spiral in night sky over PA, Delaware

What was the mysterious white spiral flying in the night sky as stargazers looked up during the Perseid meteor shower peak ...

Mysterious light over upstate New York was tail of a Vulcan rocket launch

Visible across the Northeast, the bright, pill-shaped light was the exhaust plume from the United Launch Alliance's Vulcan ...
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Mysterious light in sky likely from rocket launch

While many Southwestern Pennsylvania residents were looking skyward Tuesday night to catch a glimpse of the Perseid meteor ...
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Strange light seen in Philly sky Tuesday night likely caused by rocket launch

Theories suggest the display came from either the European Space Agency's Ariane 6 rocket or the United Launch Alliance's ...
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Watch Vulcan Centaur rocket launch experimental military satellite today

The 202-foot (61-meter) Vulcan Centaur has made two successful flights thus far. The rocket's first flight in January 2024 ...