{"id":151564,"date":"2026-02-11T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/151564\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:39:07","slug":"ula-vulcan-rocket-to-launch-space-force-mission-from-florida-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/151564\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Vulcan rocket to launch Space Force mission from Florida coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket is scheduled to take off early Thursday from the Florida coast on a mission for the U.S. Space Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The USSF-87 mission will take off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a launch window open from 3:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m., delivering a national security spacecraft to geosynchronous orbit, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulalaunch.com\/missions\/next-launch\/vulcan-ussf-87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ulalaunch.com\/missions\/next-launch\/vulcan-ussf-87\">ULA\u2019s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Thursday\u2019s launch will involve the next-generation Vulcan\u2019s heaviest payload yet, as well as be its longest-ever flight at 10 hours, ULA said Tuesday on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ulalaunch\/status\/2021291757577646285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ulalaunch\/status\/2021291757577646285\">social media<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Weather forecasters have predicted a 95% chance of \u201cGO\u201d conditions for a 3:30 a.m. launch, the post states. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Watch the launch live with coverage starting around 3 a.m. Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AFw6xy2zGCo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AFw6xy2zGCo\">by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket is scheduled to take off early Thursday from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,1767,28,30,29,6498,1769,1770,35683,73171],"class_list":["post-151564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-brevard-county","tag-cape-canaveral","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-rocket-launch","tag-space","tag-space-news","tag-ula","tag-vulcan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}