Vulcan, space launch vehicle, United Launch Alliance, Centennial, Colorado, USA

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Manufacturer - United Launch Alliance

Home page - ulalaunch.com/rockets/vulcan-centaur

Vulcan on Wikipedia

 

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Vulcan Centaur: Purpose-Built for National Security Space

Published on May 2, 2019

Secure, reliable access to space is vital to our national security. ULA is unleashing the energy of American ingenuity by developing Vulcan Centaur — a rocket purpose-built to meet all of the requirements of our our nation’s national security space launch needs.

 

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Vulcan Certification-1 Mission Profile

Jan 3, 2024

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan VC2S rocket will launch the first certification mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Cert-1 flight test includes two payloads. The first is the Peregrine Lunar Lander, Peregrine Mission One (PM1) for Astrobotic as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface. The second payload is the Celestis Memorial Spaceflights deep space Voyager mission known as the Enterprise Flight.

 

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Vulcan Cert-1 launch highlights

Jan 9, 2024

United Launch Alliance (ULA) marked the beginning of a new era of space capabilities with the successful launch of its next generation Vulcan rocket on Jan. 8 at 2:18 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Vulcan provides industry-leading capabilities to deliver any payload, at any time, to any orbit.

 

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Vulcan launch (CERT-2)

Oct 4, 2024

United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s second Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle (VC2S) launched the second certification (Cert-2) mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on 4 October 2024, at 11:25 UTC (07:25 EDT). According to ULA, “the Cert-2 mission includes an inert payload and experiments and demonstrations associated with future Centaur V technologies”.

 

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Article "With Vulcan’s certification, Space Force is no longer solely reliant on SpaceX"
US Space Force to United Launch Alliance: "I have been and always shall be your friend."

by Eric Berger
March 26, 2025

 

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Vulcan launches USSF-106

Aug 13, 2025

United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s third Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle (VC4S) launched the USSF-106 mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on 13 August 2025, at 00:56 UTC (12 August, at 20:56 EDT).