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Vulcan in a lithographic map from 1846 [1] Vulcan / ˈ v ʌ l k ən / [2] was a proposed planet that some pre-20th century astronomers thought existed in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. Speculation about, and even purported observations of, intermercurial bodies or planets date back to the beginning of the 17th century.
Orbit Customer Launch outcome 1 8 January 2024 07:18 Vulcan Centaur VC2S: Cape Canaveral, SLC‑41: Peregrine lander: 1,283 kg (2,829 lb) TLI: Astrobotic Technology: Success [3] Enterprise (space burial) Heliocentric: Celestis: Maiden flight of Vulcan Centaur and Vulcan Centaur VC2S Configuration.
Vulcan Centaur is a heavy-lift launch vehicle [a] developed and operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA). It is a two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle consisting of the Vulcan first stage and the Centaur second stage.
The Vulcan's two Blue Origin-built BE-4 engines and twin solid rocket boosters, or SRBs, thundered to life at 7:25 a.m. EDT, shattering the morning calm with the crackling roar of 2 million pounds ...
Boeing and Lockheed Martin's joint rocket venture, United Launch Alliance (ULA), plans to upgrade a version of its Vulcan rocket to challenge SpaceX's Starship in the low Earth orbit satellite ...
Vulcan can use up to six solid rocket motors for extra boost, allowing it to loft up to 60,000 pounds (27,000 kg) of satellites in a low orbit, or 32,000 pounds (14,500 kg) to further orbits.
Schematic diagram of the orbits of the fictional planets Vulcan, Counter-Earth, and Phaëton in relation to the five innermost planets of the Solar System.. Fictional planets of the Solar System have been depicted since the 1700s—often but not always corresponding to hypothetical planets that have at one point or another been seriously proposed by real-world astronomers, though commonly ...
They give the Vulcan first stage a bit of extra oomph to help lift it into orbit, then fall away and let Vulcan's main engines, built by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company, and then the Centaur ...