"The First Vulcan Certification Flight For ULA & Blue Origin Engines"
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"The First Vulcan Certification Flight For ULA & Blue Origin Engines"
"The First Vulcan Certification Flight For ULA & Blue Origin Engines"
"The First Vulcan Certification Flight For ULA & Blue Origin Engines"
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"The First Vulcan Certification Flight For ULA & Blue Origin Engines"
"The First Vulcan Certification Flight For ULA & Blue Origin Engines"
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"The First Vulcan Certification Flight For ULA & Blue Origin Engines"
"The First Vulcan Certification Flight For ULA & Blue Origin Engines"
"That New Rocket Smell"
ULA Vulcan first certification mission with payloads rolls to launch site SLC-41 for a early morning Monday launch attempt. at 2:18 AM On board this new vehicle are two payloads from Astrobotic the Peregrine Lunar Lander and Peregrine Mission One (PM1) as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative to deliver science and technology to the lunar surface. The second payload is the Celestis Memorial Spaceflights deep space voyage mission known as the Enterprise Flight.
This rocket has a pair of the new Blue Origin BE-4 engines and two solid strap on boosters.
Three dates, times & window lengths for this mission are:
Jan. 8th 2024 2:18 AM 45 Minute Window
Jan. 9th 2024 12:15 AM 9 Minute Window
Jan 10th 2024 12:12 AM 1 Minute Window
Jan 11th 2024 12:14 AM 3 Minute Window
Go Vulcan! Go Centaur! Go Cert-1!
Roll to the pad took less than one hour once it started leaving the ULA VIF during a beautiful fall day at Cape Canaveral Florida.
Photos by Scott Schilke for spacenewsfl.com
