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United Launch Alliance · Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A Vulcan Centaur lifts off from Cape Canaveral.
Photo by U.S. Space Force, Airman 1st Class Collin Wesson. Public domain. Source
Time still moving

Vulcan | NROL-100

· window to · the clock can still move

What this is

United Launch Alliance is launching a Vulcan from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA. The owner of the cargo has not said what is on board. Families can still watch the rocket fly. We just do not get to know the boxes inside.

United Launch Alliance is flying a Vulcan from Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA. Mission: NROL-100. Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office Planned orbit: Unknown. Status: To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources. The published time can still slip. Rockets wait for weather, boats, and the range.

Story written from the public listing. A model key can be added later; none is required.

From here

Too far to see

You will not see this rocket from Centennial, Colorado. It is about 929 miles west. The broadcast is the view.

That is too far for the flame and, for almost every launch, too far for the high-altitude plume. Dim the lights and watch together anyway. The clock is still loose, so daylight is a guess.

Space jobs corner

Who is on this flight

Every company we can name, in plain words, plus a careers page when we have a real one.

Careers links are public pages we know. If we do not have one, we do not invent it.

Ask about this launch

Only what the listing says

Questions stay with this launch. If a model key is configured on the server, the answer is cached. Without a key, the reply is taken straight from the record.

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So the slip still finds you

A single launch can be saved now. The subscribe feed, on the launches page, is the one that moves when a rocket slips. Calendar alarms do not know about bedtime quiet hours.