NASA Replaces ULA's Vulcan Centaur With SpaceX Falcon Heavy For Solar Storm Research

NASA 用 SpaceX 的“猎鹰重型”火箭取代 ULA 的“火神半人马座”火箭，用于太阳风暴研究

来源: space.com | 主题: NASA | 评论: 12

时间: on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:46PM

There's been a change to NASA's launch of six satellites for solar storms research. Space.com reports that those satellites "were originally slated to lift off on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket but have now been assigned a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, according to a NASA mission update ." [NASA's Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment mision — or SunRISE] will fly to space as part of a rideshare mission sponsored by the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command. Though it's not stated specifically in the NASA release, that may be a hint as to why the mission's rocket was changed. On its most recent launch [U.S. Space Force mission USSF-87], Vulcan experienced an anomaly in one of its solid rocket boosters — the second such incident to occur during the rocket's four launches to da

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