{"id":91459,"date":"2026-10-29T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-sets-nov-13-vulcan-return-after-nine-month-grounding\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T21:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:17:20","slug":"ula-sets-nov-13-vulcan-return-after-nine-month-grounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-sets-nov-13-vulcan-return-after-nine-month-grounding\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Sets Nov. 13 Vulcan Return After Nine-Month Grounding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vulcan has been sidelined for roughly nine months since the mid-flight nozzle failure. The grounding stalled national-security launches and slowed Amazon&#8217;s constellation buildout during that period.<\/p>\n<p>The return-to-flight mission is set for Nov. 13 and will loft 40 Amazon Leo satellites, part of Amazon&#8217;s Project Kuiper, into low-Earth orbit. The flight will be the first Vulcan to fly in the full six-booster configuration. United Launch Alliance is the operator, with Amazon as the customer for this mission.<\/p>\n<p>The grounding followed a nozzle failure on one of Vulcan&#8217;s solid rocket boosters during a flight in February. The return-to-flight date was reported by Air and Space Forces Magazine and Spaceflight Now.<\/p>\n<p>The return-to-flight is a major test of whether ULA can recover launch cadence and clear its national-security backlog after the monthslong pause. A clean flight would restart the clock on that backlog. Another anomaly would be far harder to explain.<\/p>\n<p>The next milestone is the Nov. 13 launch itself, which will demonstrate whether Vulcan can fly successfully in its six-booster configuration and resume regular operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulcan has been sidelined for roughly nine months since the mid-flight nozzle failure. The grounding stalled national-security launches and slowed Amazon&#8217;s constellation buildout during that period. The return-to-flight mission is set for Nov. 13 and will loft 40 Amazon Leo satellites, part of Amazon&#8217;s Project Kuiper, into low-Earth orbit. The flight will be the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91460,"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-91459","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\/91459"}],"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=91459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}