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ULA’s Vulcan Rocket to Debut in Q4 With a Fix for Anomaly Uncovered in March

ULA’s Vulcan Rocket to Debut in Q4 With a Fix for Anomaly Uncovered in March
The Vulcan Certification-1 (Cert-1) rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida in March 2023. Photo: ULA

United Launch Alliance (ULA) expects to debut the Vulcan Centaur rocket in the fourth quarter of this year after solving an anomaly discovered during qualification testing in March, CEO Tory Bruno told reporters on Thursday. He said that he does not expect the launch delay to impact National Security Space Launch (NSSL) missions for the U.S. Space Force. ULA, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Boeing [BA], had targeted May 4 for its first launch, but the rocket’s…

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