{"id":137328,"date":"2022-03-24T19:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T02:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/vulcan-centaur-on-schedule-for-first-launch-in-2022-as-new-glenn-slips"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T02:24:23","slug":"vulcan-centaur-on-schedule-for-first-launch-in-2022-as-new-glenn-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/vulcan-centaur-on-schedule-for-first-launch-in-2022-as-new-glenn-slips","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan Centaur on schedule for first launch in 2022 as New Glenn slips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vulcan-centaur-on-schedule-for-first-launch-in-2022-as-new-glenn-slips2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ULA remains confident that its Vulcan Centaur rocket will make its first launch this year while Blue Origin is pushing back the first flight of New Glenn.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 United Launch Alliance remains confident that its Vulcan Centaur rocket will make its first launch this year while Blue Origin is pushing back the first flight of its New Glenn vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>During a panel at the Satellite 2022 conference March 22, Tory Bruno, chief executive of ULA, said that he expected the first launch of the Vulcan \u201clater this year,\u201d but did not offer a more specific schedule.<\/p>\n<p>That schedule is driven by the completion of testing of the BE-4 engine that powers the first stage of Vulcan and delivery of the first flight units from Blue Origin. \u201cThe engine is in great shape,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cIt is performing better than I anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ULA remains confident that its Vulcan Centaur rocket will make its first launch this year while Blue Origin is pushing back the first flight of New Glenn. WASHINGTON \u2014 United Launch Alliance remains confident that its Vulcan Centaur rocket will make its first launch this year while Blue Origin is pushing back the first flight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}