Image: ULA The 200-foot Vulcan Centaur rocket soared to the skies for its second test flight, pulling off a nominal flight save for an issue with one of its solid rocket boosters that tainted the ...

The boosters, which Northrop Grumman calls graphite ... The core stage shut down its engines and separated from Vulcan's Centaur upper stage, which ignited two Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 engines ...

“It was a gorgeous liftoff.” One of the two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) on the United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket shows a less controlled exhaust plume after launch from Cape ...

An unusual event occurred during United Launch Alliance's (ULA) second launch of the Vulcan Centaur at the end of last week. One of the twin Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) lost its nozzle ...

Parts of the new design use well-established technology, such as the Centaur upper stage and the solid rocket boosters used on the Delta IV. More innovative is the main Vulcan core stage ...

While a static-fire test of Vulcan's booster June 7 was a success, the rocket's first launch will be delayed to make "minor reinforcements" to the Centaur upper stage. Credit: ULA WASHINGTON ...

Despite the booster anomaly, the flight’s success moves ULA closer to certifying Vulcan Centaur for national security missions. However, it remains unclear how this anomaly will impact the ...

The United Launch Alliance called off the first-ever engine test of its new Vulcan Centaur rocket on the launch pad in Florida on Thursday (May 25) due to a technical issue on the booster.

Available in four standard configurations, Vulcan Centaur’s payload capacity varies based on the number of solid rocket boosters used, either zero, two, four, or six SRBs. These Graphite Epoxy ...

Material came off one of the two solid rocket boosters on the Vulcan Centaur about 35 seconds after liftoff. Credit: ULA webcast ULA did not mention the incident during the ascent, but the timing ...

United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket lifted off for the first time tonight, making use of booster engines built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture to launch ...

spectators and photographers appeared thrilled to have witnessed the first flight of Vulcan Centaur. Two BE-4 methane engines from Blue Origin and two GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters from Northrop ...