Launch providers and vehicles
Vulcan Centaur
The United Launch Alliance vehicle flying from Space Launch Complex 41, taking its upper stage engines from the West Palm Beach plant and carrying Amazon Leo satellites [ARRL10][AMZLEO][SFNNSSL].
- Entity type
- launch vehicle
- Kind
- vehicle
- Lane
- Launch providers and vehicles
- Place
- Cape Canaveral, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 2024
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2024 · 2024: United Launch Alliance manufactures Vulcan Centaur (2024 onward)
- Role
- heavy lift vehicle
- Cutoff status
- Operating
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating from Space Launch Complex 41.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 4
- Betweenness
- 0.1413 on the full graph · 0.0202 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [ULAVUL] [ARRL10] [AMZLEO] [SFNNSSL]
Connections
Industrial production and service
- flies from →Space Launch Complex 41the vehicle flies from the complex [ULAVUL]2024 onward
- manufactures ←2024 onward
- powers ←RL10 enginethe West Palm Beach engine flies on the Centaur upper stage [ARRL10]2024 onward
- prepares payload for launch on ←Amazon Leo satellite processing facilityAmazon Leo satellites processed at the facility are prepared for launch on the vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41 [SFKUI] [ULAVUL]2025 onward