United Launch Alliance was hoping to ramp up its new Vulcan rocket launches this year, but won’t be launching any national ...

Vulcan is central to ULA’s effort to replace its Atlas 5 rocket and compete more directly for national security launches. With Vulcan missions on hold, the Space Force is now reliant solely on SpaceX ...

Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the rocket twisted on ...

The U.S. Space Force is putting an indefinite halt on all national security missions aboard United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, following a repeat anomaly with the rocket's side boosters.

United Launch Alliance suffered yet another fiery burn-through on one of its solid rocket boosters during a national security mission Thursday. The Vulcan rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space ...

On the Feb 12, 2026 USSF-87 launch, one of Vulcan’s four Northrop Grumman GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters (SRBs) suffered a nozzle burn-through (visible fiery ...

Welcome to Edition 8.29 of the Rocket Report! We have a stuffed report this week with news from across the launch spectrum. Long-term, probably the most significant development this week was a ...

A ULA Vulcan rocket launched a Space Force mission from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 12. Sparks were observed coming from a solid rocket booster shortly after liftoff, which ULA is reviewing. The mission, ...

ULA’s Vulcan Centaur suffered another solid rocket booster anomaly on its USSF-87 launch, yet still delivered satellites to geosynchronous orbit while data is reviewed.> US is sending its largest ...

This USSF-87 mission is the ULA rocket's longest to date and carries its heaviest payload. The mission is meant to deploy a spacecraft to an orbit nearly 90 times higher than the International Space ...