Tag: Vulcan
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United Launch Alliance rolls out Vulcan pathfinder for fueling tests
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan pathfinder has rolled out to SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral for tank testing as part of a continuing campaign towards the rocket’s maiden flight. While this booster will not be the first to fly, it will have its pathfinder BE-4 engines replaced with flight engines once testing is complete in order to…
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ULA updates Vulcan status, readiness for certification missions
Development and flight qualification for United Launch Alliance’s new rocket, Vulcan, remains on track and on schedule (with margin) to make its debut flights next year, as do all ground support facilities and flight software elements for the heavy-lift vehicle. Vulcan’s first two flights, certification missions to clear the rocket to fly category A/B national…
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ULA updates Vulcan status, readiness for certification missions
Development and flight qualification for United Launch Alliance’s new rocket, Vulcan, remains on track and on schedule (with margin) to make its debut flights next year, as do all ground support facilities and flight software elements for the heavy-lift vehicle. Vulcan’s first two flights, certification missions to clear the rocket to fly category A/B national…
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Northrop Grumman test fires first GEM-63XL motor for ULA’s Vulcan
The first GEM-63XL motor for the ULA Vulcan Centaur’s strap-on boosters was successfully test-fired for approximately 90 seconds, sending 449,000 lbs of thrust along with bright fire, loud noise and vibration into the sunny desert sky on Thursday at Northrop Grumman testing facility in Promontory, Utah. The QM-1 was the first of two test firings…
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Northrop Grumman test fires first GEM-63XL motor for ULA’s Vulcan
The first GEM-63XL motor for the ULA Vulcan Centaur’s strap-on boosters was successfully test-fired for approximately 90 seconds, sending 449,000 lbs of thrust along with bright fire, loud noise and vibration into the sunny desert sky on Thursday at Northrop Grumman testing facility in Promontory, Utah. The QM-1 was the first of two test firings…
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Vulcan on track as ULA eyes early-2021 test flight to the Moon
United Launch Alliance has announced their Vulcan rocket is progressing towards its maiden launch as soon as early-2021. While an exact launch target isn’t known yet, the mission will use a newly-built Launch Umbilical Tower while sharing Atlas V’s Vertical Integration Facility and SLC-41 launch pad in Florida. When first announced in 2014 as a…
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Vulcan on track as ULA eyes early-2021 test flight to the Moon
United Launch Alliance has announced their Vulcan rocket is progressing towards its maiden launch as soon as early-2021. While an exact launch target isn’t known yet, the mission will use a newly-built Launch Umbilical Tower while sharing Atlas V’s Vertical Integration Facility and SLC-41 launch pad in Florida. When first announced in 2014 as a…
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Tory Bruno Outlines ULA Transition to Vulcan and National Security Launches
Speaking to media at the Satellite 2020 conference in Washington, DC, CEO Tory Bruno previewed the end of United Launch Alliance’s current Atlas and Delta launch vehicles in favor of the new Vulcan rocket. While preparations are underway to launch the first mission for the United States Space Force, ULA is preparing for the next…
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Stratolaunch air-launch venture says it’s been transferred to new owners by Paul Allen’s Vulcan
Stratolaunch’s plane took its first test flight in April. (Scaled Composites Photo) Stratolaunch, the company that was founded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen in 2011 to build a flying launch pad for rockets, says it’s under new ownership. The transition serves as the latest sign that Jody Allen — Paul Allen’s sister, who…
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Stratolaunch rebuilds team for the world’s biggest plane after Paul Allen’s death
Stratolaunch’s six-engine, twin-fuselage airplane makes its first flight in April. (Stratolaunch Photo) Stratolaunch is hiring — nearly a year after the death of its billionaire backer, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and five months after the company’s monster plane took its first and only test flight. Allen founded the venture in 2011, with the goal of…