{"id":196980,"date":"2024-10-03T19:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/the-united-launch-alliance-ula-is-gearing-up-for-the-second-certification-flight-of-its-vulcan-centaur-rocket"},"modified":"2024-10-03T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T00:23:16","slug":"the-united-launch-alliance-ula-is-gearing-up-for-the-second-certification-flight-of-its-vulcan-centaur-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/the-united-launch-alliance-ula-is-gearing-up-for-the-second-certification-flight-of-its-vulcan-centaur-rocket","title":{"rendered":"The United Launch Alliance (ULA) is gearing up for the second certification flight of its Vulcan Centaur rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-united-launch-alliance-ula-is-gearing-up-for-the-second-certification-flight-of-its-vulcan-centaur-rocket.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>marking a critical milestone in ULA\u2019s path toward certifying the Vulcan Centaur for national security missions with the U.S. Space Force.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcan VC2S rocket is set to launch the Cert-2 mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, during a launch window on Friday, October 4, 2024, between 6:00 and 9:00 a.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>This mission includes an inert payload and key technology demonstrations for the Centaur V upper stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>marking a critical milestone in ULA\u2019s path toward certifying the Vulcan Centaur for national security missions with the U.S. Space Force. The Vulcan VC2S rocket is set to launch the Cert-2 mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, during a launch window on Friday, October 4, 2024, between 6:00 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196980","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\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}