Flight-proven design, coupled with innovative technology, will transform the future of space launch. Vulcan is available in four standard offering configurations including zero, two, four and six solid rocket booster (SRB) variants. Optimal orbit for each customer, delivering industry best spacecraft orbital insertion accuracy.

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.

1 day ago · ULA has another 38 missions lined up for Project Kuiper on Vulcan as well, but the most lucrative launches will come from the 24 missions for the Department of Defense it had been awarded as part ...

Mar 6, 2025 · WASHINGTON — United Launch Alliance (ULA) President and CEO Tory Bruno expressed confidence in his company’s ability to meet ambitious launch targets for its new Vulcan Centaur vehicle despite ...

2 days ago · ULA’s next launch will be not of Vulcan but of Atlas, carrying a set of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation. That would be followed, once Vulcan is certified, of the USSF-106 ...

Feb 11, 2025 · The first of ULA's Phase 2 missions launched last year on an Atlas V rocket, and 25 more are slated to fly on Vulcan. Pentagon officials haven't been pleased with ULA's progress on the Vulcan...

Feb 7, 2025 · United Launch Alliance is shifting its launch plans to begin 2025. On Friday, the company began de-stacking its Vulcan booster at its Government Vertical Integration Facility (VIF-G) in order...

The Vulcan Centaur rocket is built at ULA’s 1.6-million square-foot, state-of-the-art production facility in Decatur, Alabama. Vulcan Centaur will launch from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan VC2S rocket successfully launched the second certification (Cert-2) mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Cert-2 mission included an inert payload and demonstrations associated with future Centaur V technologies.

Mar 6, 2025 · And Vulcan was always skating to that puck that I anticipated being here, you know, eight, nine, ten years away from where we started. When I came to Ula and had this particular challenge.