A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket carrying a suite of classified Space Force payloads suffered what appeared to be a burn through in the nozzle of a strap-on solid-fuel booster Thursday, but company officials said the vehicle still managed to put its satellite payloads into the proper orbit. The two-stage
A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket carrying a suite of classified Space Force payloads suffered what appeared to be a burn through in the nozzle of a strap-on solid-fuel booster Thursday, but company officials said the vehicle still managed to put its satellite payloads into the proper orbit. The two-stage Vulcan rocket thundered to life at 4:22 a.m. EST and majestically climbed away from pad 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station atop 2.9 million pounds of thrust from twin methane-burning Blue Origin BE-4 engines and four Northrop Grumman solid-fuel boosters. A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket blasts off on a mostly-classified Space Force mission to put a space surveillance satellite in high Earth orbit. It also carried a suite of smaller payloads. United Launch Alliance The initial moments of the flight
