The retirement of the Atlas V and Delta IV led to a period of downsizing for United Launch Alliance, with […]
Category: vulcan
ULA aimed to launch up to 10 Vulcan rockets this year—it will fly just once
Engineers traced the problem to a manufacturing defect in an insulator on the solid rocket motor, and telemetry data from […]
Rocket Report: SpaceX achieved daily launch this week; ULA recovers booster
Firefly Aerospace reveals why its Alpha booster exploded after launch in April. Starship and its Super Heavy booster ascend through […]
With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse
As SpaceX’s Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit […]
Rocket Report: Ariane 6 beats Vulcan to third launch; China’s first drone ship
Why is China’s heavy-lift Long March 5B able to launch only 10 Guowang satellites at a time? Wearing their orange […]
After first operational launch, here’s the next big test for ULA’s Vulcan rocket
This launch was a big success, but it doesn’t necessarily quash anxieties about ULA’s ability to deliver. The third flight […]
Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch
The Vulcan rocket checks off several important boxes for the Space Force. First, it relies entirely on US-made rocket engines. […]
Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?
Skip to content Satellite companies find themselves between a rocket and a hard place. A reusable Falcon 9 booster after […]
Rocket Report: SpaceX to make its own propellant; China’s largest launch pad
United Launch Alliance begins stacking its third Vulcan rocket for the second time. Visitors walk by models of a Long […]
The Pentagon seems to be fed up with ULA’s rocket delays
Some of the displeasure was apparent in April when the US military announced that it would ask SpaceX to launch […]