The United Launch Alliance successfully launched a Vulcan Centaur rocket into orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday. The mission delivered classified payloads, as well as a Navigation Technology Satellite-3 system,

United Launch Alliance completed its first US national security mission with the newly developed Vulcan rocket, a key test of the vehicle’s ability to put satellites into high orbits above the Earth.

United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur lifted off for the third time ever in an experimental launch to put navigation satellite in orbit