The 202-foot (61-meter) Vulcan Centaur has made two successful flights thus far. The rocket's first flight in January 2024 saw Vulcan launch Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander toward the moon — only for the lander to suffer an anomaly and fall back to Earth through no fault of the rocket.

The United Launch Alliance 's Vulcan rocket sent the first U.S. national security mission to space on Tuesday night, sending satellites up. It's part of the United States Space Force (USSF)-106 mission. Liftoff occurred from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida's Space Coast.