It – along with the Centaur upper stage as a whole – came to the rescue during the OA-6 Cygnus mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Due to an underperformance of the Atlas V ...

using an Atlas V rocket in the 551 configuration – tail number AV-073. This is a two-stage rocket, with a Common Core Booster (CCB) first stage, a single-engine Centaur upper stage, five Aerojet ...

The Centaur V upper stage conducted two long engine burns as ... half of them with Vulcan Centaur and half with the still-active Atlas V. One of those Vulcan Centaur flights will likely loft ...

The Vulcan will also include an upgraded version of the Atlas V’s Centaur upper stage, which ULA’s CEO Tony Bruno says will be more than twice as powerful as the current configuration.

ULA’s Vulcan rocket is powered by a Centaur V upper stage, which the company wants to upgrade over time to fly long-duration missions. (United Launch Alliance) The United Launch Alliance ...

That thrust is more powerful than either Atlas V or Delta IV Heavy ... nondeployable payloads atop the Centaur upper stage ...

United Launch Alliance hoists a Centaur V upper stage atop the Vulcan first stage booster into the Vertical Integration Facility adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Centaur, the upper stage of the Vulcan Centaur, is designed for orbit. During the recent Spacepower Conference in Orlando, Florida, ULA CEO Tory Bruno said that Centaur could be upgraded to ...

This would however be the first time a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage is doing a lunar crash. How it can help with lunar investigations With the Atlas V rocket, the impact took place in the moon ...