The USSF-87 mission marked the Vulcan rocket’s second launch under the National Security Space Launch, or NSSL, program.

United Launch Alliance flew its Vulcan rocket for only the fourth time early Thursday, but suffered yet another fiery burn through on one of its solid rocket boosters during a national security ...

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The booster anomaly resulted in months of delays before the Space Force finally gave ULA the green light to begin launching its missions. Vulcan launched its first military payload in August 2025, ...

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Proton rocket returns to flight. After a nearly three-year break, a Russian Proton rocket flew again with the Elektro-L No. 5 meteorological satellite from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, Russian Space Web ...

A ULA Vulcan rocket launched a Space Force mission, but an unexpected light show from its boosters sparked questions. Here's ...

Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the rocket twisted on ...

ULA’s Vulcan launches Space Force mission; solid booster anomaly under investigation ULA’s Vulcan launches U.S. Space Force mission to geosynchronous orbit ...

United Launch Alliance launched its first mission of 2026 with the USSF-87 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Vulcan Centaur V-005, with four solid rocket boosters in the VC4S ...

The Space Force certified Vulcan Centaur for U.S. national security missions in March 2025. The rocket performed its first such flight that August, successfully delivering an experimental navigation ...

The rocket delivered a classified military payload to orbit, but there appeared to be a problem on the flight.