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Powerful Vulcan Centaur rocket launching for 1st time in 9 months today: Watch it live
Liftoff is scheduled for 12:54 p.m. ET today (Nov. 13).
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United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly today (Nov. 13) for the first time in nine months, and you can watch the action live.
A Vulcan Centaur topped with 40 Amazon Leo internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 12:54 p.m. EST (1754 GMT).
You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of ULA, or directly via the company. Coverage will start 20 minutes before liftoff.
Vulcan Centaur is the successor to ULA's workhorse Atlas V rocket, which has just a half-dozen launches left on its manifest.
Vulcan debuted in January 2024 and has flown three more times since. On two of those missions — its second, in October 2024, and its fourth, in February of this year — the rocket experienced an issue with one of its solid rocket boosters (SRBs).
In both cases, an SRB nozzle burned through and fell off about 30 seconds after launch. Vulcan Centaur overcame the problem on both launches, successfully delivering its payloads to their designated orbits. But the U.S. Space Force was concerned enough that it decided to pause national security launches on Vulcan until ULA addresses the problem. (Vulcan's third and fourth launches were Space Force missions.)
ULA has been working hard on that front, and the company is confident that Vulcan is ready to return to flight.
"The integrated team has made great strides in improving our understanding of the SRB anomaly that occurred on the previous Vulcan flight and have identified several potential contributors, which have been mitigated through design and process improvements to the nozzle," the company said in an Oct. 28 update.