{"id":61886,"date":"2019-08-14T00:45:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/vulcan-centaur-rocket-on-schedule-for-2021-flight\/"},"modified":"2019-08-14T00:45:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:45:19","slug":"vulcan-centaur-rocket-on-schedule-for-2021-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/vulcan-centaur-rocket-on-schedule-for-2021-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan Centaur Rocket on Schedule for 2021 Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Production of the first Vulcan Centaur rocket at the&nbsp;<strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) factory in&nbsp;Decatur, Alabama&nbsp;continues, with shipment to the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in&nbsp;Florida&nbsp;scheduled for late next year for processing in preparation for its first launch in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Department of Defense<\/strong> (DoD) has established a selection strategy to ensure a smooth transition to a U.S. engine, while introducing competition, driving down costs and safeguarding continued assured access to space by preventing any capability gaps. Nearly one year ago, the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> held a competition and awarded three Launch Services Agreements for public-private partnerships to develop launch vehicles. Phase 2 is the next procurement in the Air Force\u2019s strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nation is facing a contested space environment, and we are unleashing the energy of American ingenuity by developing Vulcan Centaur to meet our nation\u2019s need for expanding space missions,\u201d said Tory Bruno, ULA President &amp; CEO. \u201cVulcan Centaur\u2019s flight proven design, coupled with innovative technology, is transforming the future of space launch and will advance America\u2019s superiority in space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production of the first Vulcan Centaur rocket at the&nbsp;United Launch Alliance (ULA) factory in&nbsp;Decatur, Alabama&nbsp;continues, with shipment to the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in&nbsp;Florida&nbsp;scheduled for late next year for processing in preparation for its first launch in 2021. The Department of Defense (DoD) has established a selection strategy to ensure a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}