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After first operational launch, here’s the next big test for ULA’s Vulcan rocket

In the near term, ULA will switch back to launching its soon-to-retire Atlas V rocket, the Vulcan rocket's predecessor. The ...

Mysterious light over upstate New York was tail of a Vulcan rocket launch

Visible across the Northeast, the bright, pill-shaped light was the exhaust plume from the United Launch Alliance's Vulcan ...

ULA Vulcan rocket to launch first national security mission

A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket is gearing up to carry a classified national security payload into space Tuesday night ...
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ULA will launch its second Vulcan rocket without a real payload

ULA's other big customer, Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation, also won't be ready to launch its first batch of operational satellites on a Vulcan rocket this fall.

Perseid meteor, Vulcan rocket launch or UFO; white spiral in night sky over PA, Delaware

What was the mysterious white spiral flying in the night sky as stargazers looked up during the Perseid meteor shower peak ...