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NTS-3 May Launch This Year on Vulcan Centaur

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NTS-3 May Launch This Year on Vulcan Centaur
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket carrying the Cert-2 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. on Oct. 4 last year as "Vulcan’s second and final certification flight," ULA said (ULA Photo)

AURORA, Colo.--More than two years after the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) had planned to launch the L3Harris Technologies' [LHX] Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3), it may get into orbit this year on United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket, which is in the final stages of certification. ULA is a Boeing [BA]/Lockheed Martin [LMT] partnership. NTS-3 "is currently scheduled on the first Vulcan military launch, the first certified launch," Jeffrey Hebert, senior scientist for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) at…

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