Powerful Vulcan Centaur rocket launching for 1st time in 9 months today: Watch it live
14) for the first time in nine months, and you can watch the action live.
Key points
- Update: United Launch Alliance has delayed the launch of its Vulcan Centaur rocket to Saturday (Nov.
- If all goes according to plan Saturday, Vulcan Centaur will deploy the 40 Amazon Leo satellites over a 25-minute span beginning about 70 minutes after launch.
- "The integrated team has made great strides in improving our understanding of the SRB anomaly that occurred on the previous Vulcan flight and have identified several potential contributors, which have been mitigated through design and process improvements to the nozzle," the company said in an Oct.
(Image credit: ULA) Vulcan Centaur is the successor to ULA's workhorse Atlas V rocket, which has just a half-dozen launches left on its manifest.
ULA's second Vulcan Centaur rocket lifts off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Oct.
Additional details
- Today's launch will be the first such mission for the Vulcan Centaur, which explains ULA's name for the launch — Vulcan Leo 1.
- Vulcan Centaur overcame the problem on both launches, successfully delivering its payloads to their designated orbits.
- On two of those missions — its second, in October 2024, and its fourth, in February of this year — the rocket experienced an issue with one of its solid rocket boosters (SRBs).
- (Vulcan's third and fourth launches were Space Force missions.) ULA has been working hard on that front, and the company is confident that Vulcan is ready to return to flight.
- You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of ULA, or directly via the company.
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