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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.
First NRO launch on Vulcan 2025 [18] Vulcan Centaur Vandenberg, SLC‑3E: NROL-83: TBA: NRO: Classified NRO payload. First Vulcan Centaur launch from Vandenberg. 2025 Vulcan Centaur VC2S [22] Cape Canaveral, SLC‑41: GPS III SV10 [23] MEO: U.S. Space Force: First GPS mission for Vulcan Centaur. 2025 [7] Vulcan Centaur VC2S [22] Cape Canaveral ...
Four years overdue, delayed by problems at Blue Origin getting the engine ready, by its own development issues, and by COVID, ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket finally made its first launch in early 2024.
Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. A first list contains rockets that are operational or have attempted an orbital flight attempt as of 2024; a second list ...
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 ...
A heavy-lift launch vehicle (HLV) is an orbital launch vehicle capable of lifting payloads between 20,000 to 50,000 kg (44,000 to 110,000 lb) (by NASA classification) or between 20,000 to 100,000 kilograms (44,000 to 220,000 lb) (by Russian classification) [1] into low Earth orbit (LEO). [2] Heavy-lift launch vehicles often carry payloads into ...
In November 2020, ULA launched NROL-101, a top secret spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office, on board their Atlas V in a 531 configuration. This launch was notable because it was the first flight of the GEM-63 solid rocket boosters, a version of which will be used on their Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle. [153]
Centaur V is the upper stage of the new Vulcan launch vehicle developed by the United Launch Alliance to meet the needs of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program. [32] Vulcan was initially intended to enter service with an upgraded variant of the Common Centaur, [ 33 ] with an upgrade to the Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage (ACES ...