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What is the Vulcan? United Launch Alliance ushers in 'new era in national space security'

The Vulcan, the United Launch Alliance's newer rocket, got off the ground from Florida on its first national security mission for US Space Force.

Vulcan launch photos: See ULA's USSF-106 mission lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

A post-sunset United Launch Alliance rocket launch illuminated the darkness during the USSF-106 mission from Cape Canaveral ...

Mysterious light over upstate New York was tail of a Vulcan rocket launch

Visible across the Northeast, the bright, pill-shaped light was the exhaust plume from the United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket.

What is the ULA Vulcan rocket? What to know ahead of Space Force national security mission

Now, the Vulcan's debut flight for the Space Force’s Space Systems Command will be its first major test in operation.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.