The Vulcan rocket for the Cert-1 mission stands at SLC-41 during testing in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 12, 2023.
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United Launch Alliance still plans to fly its heavy-lift Vulcan rocket by late 2023 — despite suffering a mishap earlier this year after an engine exploded during testing.
CNBC previously reported that one of Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines, ordered for ULA’s second Vulcan rocket launch, detonated last month. ULA CEO Tory Bruno said in an interview for CNBC’s “Manifest Space” podcast that the engine faced setbacks during its acceptance phase, but that such occurrences are not uncommon.
“[It] happens in a production run on a rocket — somewhere on the rocket — pretty much every month, and it won’t be news once the other things we’re doing are less interesting,” Bruno explained. “The ones at the launch site have already been through this successfully and even been hot fired in the flight readiness firing.”
Vulcan’s first flight has been delayed several…
2023-07-28 09:34:54
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