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ULA CEO: Component Issues that Delayed Summer Launches Won’t Affect Vulcan Rocket

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, July 22nd, 2019

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ULA CEO: Component Issues that Delayed Summer Launches Won’t Affect Vulcan Rocket

A rendering of United Launch Alliance's forthcoming Vulcan Centaur heavy-lift rocket, which is expected to be fielded in 2021. (Image: ULA)

A component issue that has prompted delays of two scheduled launches this summer aboard United Launch Alliance (ULA) rockets will not translate over to the joint venture’s forthcoming space vehicle, the CEO said July 19. “This is a routine thing that happens” building up to a launch, said Tory Bruno during a Friday panel on space competition at the Aspen Security Forum in Aspen, Colorado. Bruno noted that national security launch customers order the rocket 100 to 200 weeks in…

Army

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Congress

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Budget

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Congress

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