The planned launch of Vulcan Centaur, hit a snag after a fireball mishap at an Alabama test stand destroyed a test version of the rocket’s upper Centaur stage.
United Launch Alliance ULA and its partner Beyond Gravity broke ground in Decatur today on new construction to support Jeff Bezos' Project Kuiper plan to put communications satellites in space. Here, invited guests see the first Vulcan rocket for that mission ready to head to Cape Canaveral for launch.United Launch Alliance is looking to get its much-delayed Vulcan Centaur rocket up off the pad before the end of the year.
The planned May launch of Vulcan Centaur, though, hit a snag after a fireball mishap at an Alabama test stand that destroyed a test version of the rocket’s upper Centaur stage. At the time, ULA was going through a series of tests to push the envelope for stresses its new rocket might see on launch, and the fireball resulted in the need for ULA to come up with solutions to prevent a similar event from happening on a live launch.
Certification-1 is still taking up a secondary payload, though, human remains for company Celestis Inc., this time brining the ashes of more than 150 people to space including “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and actor James Doohan who played “Scotty” on the TV series on what the company is calling its Enterprise Flight.
ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno said teams were able to nail down the combination of factors that led to the incident.
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