In the near term, ULA will switch back to launching its soon-to-retire Atlas V rocket, the Vulcan rocket's predecessor. The company has 13 more Atlas Vs in its inventory, most of them sold to Amazon ...

The Vulcan, the United Launch Alliance's newer rocket, got off the ground from Florida on its first national security mission ...

United Launch Alliance was supposed to fly its first national security mission on its new Vulcan rocket three years ago. It may finally begin its big game of catchup this week. “We’re going to start ...

ULA's Vulcan is replacing the company's workhorse Atlas 5 rocket and the already-retired Delta 4 family of launchers.

The company lofted an experimental navigation satellite on behalf of the U.S. military Tuesday at 8:56 p.m. EDT (0056 GMT on ...

ULA's Vulcan rocket has been certified by the US Space Force for national security missions after completing a rigorous certification process. The certification process included two successful test ...

"The Vulcan rocket's inaugural launch marked the beginning of a new era of space capabilities, providing higher performance while offering the world's only high energy architecture rocket," said Bruno ...

The first Vulcan launch by about four years before ULA successfully completed the rocket’s first demonstration flight in January 2024. ULA expected to be ready to launch the first military mission on ...

But a big factor is/was the parent companies commanding ULA to “stay in their lane”. Developing new technologies is supposed to be reserved to the parents - hence the slow walking/halting of ACES etc.

When rockets launch in Florida, they blast off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center or from Cape Canaveral on the East Coast, about an hour away from the Orlando theme parks. It's rare when cities on the ...

United Launch Alliance fired off its first operational Vulcan rocket Tuesday, boosting two military satellites into space in the first U.S. Space Force-sanctioned flight of a new launcher that ...