2024 · United Launch Alliance
Certification Flight 2
successVulcan VC2S | Certification Flight 2
Replacement Vulcan test launch with inert payload, experiments, and demonstrations for certification with the USSF after delays caused by payload testing of the Sierra Space Dreamchaser CRS SNC-1 mission, the original planned payload. One of the GEM-63XL SRBs was observed to blown out its booster nozzle at T+37 seconds, causing reduced and asymmetric thrust during ascent, however the performance shortfall was fully compensated by Vulcan's other stages.
Overview
- Date / time
- October 4, 2024 at 11:25 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41
- Mission
- Certification Flight 2
- Mission type
- Test Flight
- Orbit achieved
- Heliocentric N/A