Second certification flight of ULA's Vulcan Centaur, flown with an inert mass simulator after Sierra Space's Dream Chaser slipped; despite shedding a nozzle from one of its solid rocket boosters seconds after liftoff, the vehicle completed its certification objectives.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 Vulcan VC2S flights
- Date and time
- 4 October 2024, 11:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Vulcan VC2S
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2024-179
- Launches in 2024
- 184th of 263
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