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USSF-50

Vulcan, United Launch Alliance

Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Launch time

No earlier than

NET 2020s

Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.

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The source gives decade precision. Launch plans can change.

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Mission

USSF-50 on Vulcan. NET 2020s. Status: TBD. Launch site: Space Launch Complex 41. Source: Launch Library 2.

Classified payload for the US Space Force.

Mission type
Government/Top Secret
Orbit
Unknown

Launch-site file imagery

A Vulcan rocket lifts off between the lightning towers of Space Launch Complex 41 in a night launch.

File imagery: Peregrine Mission One, 8 January 2024. Space Launch Complex 41 during a Vulcan launch.

Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett · Public domain (NASA) · Source

Launch context

Generated from source records

USSF-50: Vulcan, operated by United Launch Alliance. Pad: Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA. Mission type: Government/Top Secret; target orbit: Unknown. Listed timing: NET 2020s. TBD means this is a provisional date. Provider: 11 orbital attempts in our records since 28 Apr 2025, including 5 in 2026 (UTC). Pad: 11 orbital attempts in our records since 28 Apr 2025.

Partial historical coverage. Records snapshot: .

What these records cover

Partial coverage of stored records, not lifetime or worldwide totals. Counts use known orbital attempts with a source date at or before this snapshot and a status confirming liftoff or an outcome. Scheduled, upstream-missing, suborbital and unknown-orbit records are excluded. Source dates are NET estimates, not verified actual liftoff times.

The vehicle percentage is Success / (Success + Failure + Partial Failure). In Flight and Payload Deployed count as attempts but are excluded from that denominator. Figures describe the stored record at this snapshot, not the vehicle's flight number or a prediction of this launch's outcome.

Launch Library 2 record checked . Recorded timing does not establish actual liftoff; plans can change.

Launch data: The Space Devs (Launch Library 2)

Launch timeline

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Slip history

Changes recorded by Space Right Now

No changes since we started tracking on .

    Source updates from Launch Library 2 (2)

    Announcements supplied by LL2 may predate our tracking. They are separate from changes observed by Space Right Now.

    1. LL2 update

      Payload swap with USSF-174 (to be launched on Falcon Heavy) confirmed.

      Read the source update
    2. LL2 update

      Adding launch, year TBD

      Read the source update

    Launch pad

    Space Launch Complex 41

    Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA (US)

    Coordinates: 28.58341025, -80.58303644

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    Launch data: The Space Devs (Launch Library 2)

    Launch plans change. Times are estimates from the source, not a guarantee of liftoff.