United Launch Alliance has queued up its first Vulcan Centaur launch of the year, and its first ever for the Space Force.

The company’s new primary rocket is set to lift off on the USSF-106 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 8:56 p.m. near the end of an hour-long launch window that originally was primed to launch just before sunset.

Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts an 80% chance for good launch conditions.

Its payload is two satellites, including the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 headed to geostationary orbit. Built by L3Harris, it’s funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory and could be a potential replacement technology for GPS. The other satellite is classified.

The mission was awarded to ULA back in 2020 and was orig

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