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It was launched on the maiden flight of Vulcan Centaur on 8 January 2024, 07:18 UTC. [1] The Vulcan Centaur successfully placed Peregrine into trans-lunar injection , however, following a fuel leak with the spacecraft unrelated to the Vulcan Centaur, the lander failed in its attempt to land on the moon.
As of October 2018, the US government had committed about $1.2 billion in a public–private partnership to Vulcan Centaur development, with plans for more once ULA concluded a National Security Space Launch contract. [40] By March 2016, the United States Air Force (USAF) had committed up to $202 million for Vulcan development.
On 12 August 2019, ULA submitted Vulcan Centaur for phase 2 of the USAF's launch services competition. As of July 2024, Vulcan Centaur has completed one certification flight launch and another is left be fully certified for national security launches.
The Vulcan Centaur is a heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by ULA integrating technology from both its prior Atlas and Delta rocket families along with advancements. Vulcan has been designed to meet the requirements of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program and be capable of achieving human-rating certification to allow the launch ...
The Centaur is a family of rocket propelled upper stages that has been in use since 1962. It is currently produced by U.S. launch service provider United Launch Alliance, with one main active version and one version under development.
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Iris [12] Astrobotic Technology CMU: TLI to lunar surface: CubeRover: Precluded Colmena × 5 [12] UNAM: TLI to lunar surface: Lunar rover: Precluded Maiden flight of Vulcan Centaur and Vulcan Centaur VC2S Configuration. Vulcan is the first methane fueled rocket to reach orbit on its first attempt, and the first to reach orbit from the US. [8]
The Mobile Launcher Platform-1 on top of a crawler-transporter. A mobile launcher platform (MLP), also known as mobile launch platform, is a structure used to support a large multistage space vehicle which is assembled (stacked) vertically in an integration facility (e.g. the Vehicle Assembly Building) and then transported by a crawler-transporter (CT) to a launch pad.