SpaceX rival United Launch Alliance launched its new Vulcan rocket early Monday morning.
Updated at 18:30 CST on January 8, 2024
SpaceX rival United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched its new Vulcan rocket early Monday morning.
The rocket is designed to replace ULA’s Delta IV and Atlas V rockets, carry the first commercial lunar lander on a lunar mission, and carry out the mission of sending human ashes to deep space.
The Cert-1 test flight is an important milestone for ULA. ULA was established in 2006 as a joint venture between Boeing Co. (BA) and Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT). Since then, the company’s Delta and Atlas rockets have been used on more than 150 missions to place payloads into orbit.
Vulcan departed Cape, Florida at 2:19 a.m. ET…
SpaceX rival United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched its new Vulcan rocket early Monday morning.
The rocket is designed to replace ULA’s Delta IV and Atlas V rockets, carry the first commercial lunar lander on a lunar mission, and carry out the mission of sending human ashes to deep space.
The Cert-1 test flight is an important milestone for ULA. ULA was established in 2006 as a joint venture between Boeing Co. (BA) and Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT). Since then, the company’s Delta and Atlas rockets have been used on more than 150 missions to place payloads into orbit.
Vulcan lifted off from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2:19 a.m. ET. The Vulcan booster stage separated at 2:24 a.m. ET, and the rocket’s Centaur upper stage then launched Astrobotic Technology’s “Peregrine” lunar lander into an orbit more than 220,000 miles above Earth, from where it will head toward the moon. Landing. Fifty-one minutes after launch, Peregrine separated from the Centaur upper stage rocket.
“It’s been an absolutely beautiful mission so far,” ULA CEO Tory Bruno said during a live broadcast of the launch.
The Peregrine mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which aims to deliver scientific research equipment to the lunar surface.
Peregrine carries NASA’s scientific instruments to study the lunar surface and is expected to land on the moon on February 23, 2024.
(This article is translated from MarketWatch. MarketWatch is operated by Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, but MarketWatch is independent from Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.)
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2024-01-08 10:30:00
