KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — A new era for United Launch Alliance is geared to make its much-delayed debut as its new Vulcan Centaur rocket is set to lift off during an overnight launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The replacement for ULA’s Atlas V and Delta IV rockets that was originally targeting its first launch back in 2021 finally aims to take flight three years later on the .
There’s a lot riding on tonight’s scheduled launch of United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket, including what could be the first mission to put a commercially built lander safely on the moon. Liftoff will mark the first-ever space mission for the Vulcan rocket, and the first-ever use of BE-4 rocket engines built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture. Two BE-4 engines, fueled by liquefied natural gas, will lift the first-stage booster spaceward with an assist from two si
A Vulcan rocket roared to life early Monday for the first time, launching a lunar lander from a private Pittsburgh-based company carrying NASA science and other payloads to the Moon.
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