{"id":161633,"date":"2024-12-26T20:04:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T10:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ula-ceo-vulcan-centaur-rocket-us-space-force-satellite-defense-role\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T20:04:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T10:04:25","slug":"ula-ceo-pitches-vulcan-centaur-rocket-for-us-space-force-satellite-defense-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=161633","title":{"rendered":"ULA CEO Pitches Vulcan Centaur Rocket For US Space Force Satellite Defense Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Launch Alliance (ULA) has proposed a new military application for its Vulcan Centaur             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"187451\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/rocket\/\"  >rocket<\/a><\/span>. It says the rocket can be used as a &#8220;space interceptor&#8221; able to thwart threats to US assets in orbit. The Vulcan Centaur rocket is a heavy launch vehicle that competes with SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9. While it is still expensive (around $110 million per launch), it is around half the price of the Atlas V predecessor and its expensive Blue Origin BE-4 engines are designed to be reusable. To compete with             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58643\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/spacex\/\"  >SpaceX<\/a><\/span>,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2035403\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-fast-facts-vulcan-ula-us-space-force-rocket\/\" >ULA has been searching for more applications where the upper stage could be reused for multiple missions while in space<\/a><\/span>, including they &#8220;<em>might tug satellites or counter Chinese threats<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulcan Centaur could become a &#8220;Greyhound&#8221; destroyer or interceptor of space protecting Space Force satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,567,2846,423],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-161633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-guides","category-spacex","category-united-states","tag-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161634,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161633\/revisions\/161634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}