On the 9th of march ULA rolled their new Vulcan Rocket out to its pad at SLC-41 for its next phase of qualification testing after being stacked in the VLP in late January.
On the 10th of March they then managed to successfully complete LNG and LOX fueling demonstrations on the first stage to help to verify countdown steps, procedures and timelines ahead of its Cert-1 launch in may. There were plans to complete testing of the Centaur V upper stage however on the 12th they were forced to roll it back to the VIF because of weather concerns with an incomming storm.
After rolling back out on the 14th crews successfully conducted another tanking test along with centaur testing!
It was then confirmed by Tory Bruno that Booster test was a “Clean repeat of last time” and that “Centaur went well” even though there was “some learning specific to the ground system”
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