Finally the awaited day has come. United Launch Alliance’s ULA’s first Vulcan Rocket rolled out of its hangar on Friday. It took a 30-minute drive to the launch pad in Florida. Then, after ten years of effort, the Vulcan Rocket has now settled on the launch pad.
Finally, the Vulcan Rocket is now on the launch pad!
The Vulcan Rocket was revealed in all its glory for the first time with its full size of 61.6 meters. ULA finished assembling its lunar rocket last month. Since then, the rocket has been waiting for the day it would emerge from its cocoon inside the scaffolding of the company’s vertical hangar at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Finally, the awaited day has arrived. On Friday, ULA’s ground crew moved the Vulcan Rocket and mobile launch platform to the seaside launch pad. This is one of the last steps of the Vulcan Rocket before its launch. The rocket will be launched before noon on Monday.
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On Sunday afternoon, ULA engineers will load the Vulcan Rocket with methane, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuels. The team will then gather at a control center in Cape Canaveral to oversee the 11-hour countdown.
ULA This is a joint venture formed in 2006 by the merger of the launch divisions of Boeing and Lockheed Martin. This rocket is very important for the company. Mark Peller, ULA’s vice president of Vulcan development, said the Vulcan rocket is literally the embodiment of the company’s future. ULA’s fleet of Atlas and Delta rockets will be replaced by a new fleet. Thus, the origins of this fleet will date back to the early years of the Space Age.
Peller made a statement on the issue on Friday. “This new rocket does everything Atlas and Delta can do. But we had the opportunity to develop a new rocket with higher performance and cutting-edge technology. The system we have developed and are about to fly really sets us up for a very bright and prosperous future for many years to come.” positioning it for the future.”
The most powerful version of Vulcan will surpass the Delta IV Heavy, the largest rocket in ULA’s current fleet. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket can lift heavier payloads flying into low Earth orbit. Vulcan also has a similar lift capacity to higher altitude orbits like the Falcon Heavy.
