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 ...

And it is these boosters that are the center of our attention today. The Vulcan Centaur that departed Florida a few hours ago had two boosters on, although the rocket has been built in such a way ...

“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 ...

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 ...