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[b]On the pad![/b] The inaugural Vulcan has arrived at its Cape Canaveral pad for Monday's (Jan. 8) Certification-1 launch to begin a new era in American access to space. The Vulcan Launch Platform (VLP) was lowered onto the launch pad piers, accomplishing the "harddown" milestone at 11:33 a.m. EST on Friday (Jan. 5). Over the next few hours, umbilical connections were made with launch pad systems, the environmental control system feeding conditioned air to the rocket and payload were switched to facility supplies to allow the portable trailers used during rollout to be unplugged and moved away. The launch countdown will begin Sunday afternoon, leading to a liftoff on Monday at 2:18 a.m. EST (0718 UTC).
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