United Launch Alliance (ULA) will use the high-energy capabilities of the Space Force certified Vulcan rocket to carry two U.S. national security satellite missions directly into geosynchronous orbit.

The USSF-106 launch for the Space Force's Space System Command (SSC) is planned from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. It will be one of the longest launches ever for ULA, a marathon extending more than 22,000 miles (35,000 km) above Earth and lasting over seven hours to complete.
The payloads feature demonstrations and experiments from Department of Defense customers, including the Navigation Technology Satelllite-3 (NTS-3). The Air Force Research Laboratory's NTS-3 satellite will test critical technologies designed to defeat the 21st century threats that contested, degraded and denied position, navigation and timing (PNT) poses to our national security.