United Launch Alliance (ULA) is ready to launch the second check flight of its Vulcan Centaur rocket on Friday morning (Oct. 4), and you’ll watch the motion stay on-line.
Vulcan Centaur’s second mission, a check flight known as Cert-2, is scheduled to raise off from House Launch Complicated-41 (SLC-41) at Florida’s Cape Canaveral House Power Station throughout a three-hour window that opens at 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT). You may watch the launch stay right here at House.com, courtesy of ULA, or straight through the corporate.
Cert-2 is the second flight of Vulcan Centaur after January’s Cert-1, which despatched Astrobotic’s Peregrine moon lander to Earth orbit. Cert-2 is an illustration mission required to certify the rocket for future use by the U.S. House Power.
Vulcan Centaur was rolled out to SLC-41 on Monday (Sept. 30). The rocket had a profitable “moist gown rehearsal” on Tuesday (Oct. 1), throughout which the corporate accomplished a fueling check and follow countdown.
ULA goals to launch two House Power missions, known as USSF-106 and USSF-87, with Vulcan Centaur by the tip of the yr. A profitable Cert-2 launch shall be an enormous step towards that aim, although post-flight information evaluations are required to formally certify the rocket.
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The Cert-2 check flight will carry an inert “mass simulator” and instrumentation that can permit ULA to evaluate the rocket’s higher stage. The mission was initially purported to fly Sierra House’s robotic Dream Chaser house airplane, however the spacecraft wasn’t prepared in time for launch.
ULA will share mission updates on its weblog from launch management starting at 12 midnight EDT (0400 GMT). The launch webcast will begin at 5:40 a.m. EDT (0940 UTC). You may also observe the launch actions on-line right here at House.com — you’ll want to verify again for updates on the mission.
