火神半人马座火箭在首次发射前抵达发射台（照片）

Liftoff is scheduled for early Monday morning (Jan. 8).

发射定于周一清晨（1 月 8 日）。

United Launch Alliance rolled its first Vulcan Centaur rocket to the launch pad on Jan. 5, 2024, ahead of a planned Jan. 8 liftoff. (Image credit: ULA)

A powerful new rocket has arrived at the pad for its first-ever liftoff.

联合发射联盟于 2024 年 1 月 5 日将第一枚火神半人马座火箭发射到发射台，计划于 1 月 8 日发射。（图片来源：ULA）一枚强大的新型火箭已抵达发射台进行首次升空。

United Launch Alliance (ULA) rolled its Vulcan Centaur rocket out to Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this morning (Jan. 5), keeping it on target for a planned Monday (Jan. 8) launch.

今天早上（1 月 5 日），联合发射联盟 (ULA) 将火神半人马座火箭发射到佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角太空部队站的 41 号太空发射综合体，使其按计划于周一（1 月 8 日）发射。

That liftoff, which is scheduled for 2:18 a.m. EST (0718 GMT) on Monday, will send the private Peregrine lander toward the moon. You can watch the action live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV, beginning at 1:30 a.m. EST (0630 GMT).

这次发射定于周一美国东部时间凌晨 2 点 18 分（格林尼治标准时间 0718），将把私人 Peregrine 着陆器送向月球。您可以在 Space.com 观看由 NASA TV 提供的现场直播，时间为美国东部时间凌晨 1:30（格林威治标准时间 0630）。

The 202-foot-tall (62-meter-tall) Vulcan Centaur will replace ULA's venerable Atlas V and Delta IV rockets, which have sent many prominent payloads skyward over the past few decades.

202 英尺高（62 米）的 Vulcan Centaur 将取代 ULA 久负盛名的 Atlas V 和 Delta IV 火箭，这两种火箭在过去几十年中向天空发射了许多重要的有效载荷。

The new rocket made the 0.3-mile (0.5-kilometer) trek from its hangar this morning "with the help of undercarriage railcars and trackmobile machines that push[ed] the entire 1.7-million-pound (771,000-kg) platform and #VulcanRocket along tracks up the hill to the pad," ULA wrote in a post on X today.

今天早上，新型火箭在起落架轨道车和履带移动机器的帮助下从机库出发，完成了 0.3 英里（0.5 公里）的长途跋涉，推动了整个 170 万磅（771,000 公斤）的平台和 #VulcanRocket沿着小路上山到达停机坪，”ULA 今天在 X 上的一篇帖子中写道。

"Now that is a beautiful sight," ULA CEO Tory Bruno wrote in an X post of his own today, which shared a photo of the red-and-white Vulcan Centaur standing atop the pad at the end of the rollout.

ULA 首席执行官托里·布鲁诺 (Tory Bruno) 今天在自己的 X 帖子中写道：“现在这真是一个美丽的景象。”该帖子分享了一张红白相间的火神半人马在展示结束时站在垫子上的照片。

Monday's launch will also mark the debut of Peregrine, a robotic moon lander built by Pittsburgh company Astrobotic. Peregrine will target a touchdown next month, and success would be historic; no private craft has ever aced a lunar landing.

周一的发射也标志着由匹兹堡 Astrobotic 公司制造的机器人月球着陆器 Peregrine 的首次亮相。百富勤的目标是下个月着陆，成功将是历史性的；从来没有私人飞船成功登月。

Peregrine is flying via NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which aims to pave the way for the agency's Artemis astronaut missions. The private lander is carrying a variety of science payloads provided by NASA and Germany's space agency, known as DLR.

百富勤号通过美国宇航局的商业月球有效载荷服务计划进行飞行，该计划旨在为该机构的阿耳忒弥斯宇航员任务铺平道路。这架私人着陆器搭载了美国宇航局和德国航天局（DLR）提供的各种科学有效载荷。

Astrobotic booked some private payloads on this Peregrine flight as well, including memorial capsules organized by the companies Celestis and Elysium Space. This cargo has sparked a some controversy; the Navajo Nation has objected to the capsules' inclusion, saying the deposition of human remains on the moon would violate a sacred space.

Astrobotic 还在这趟 Peregrine 航班上预订了一些私人有效载荷，包括由 Celestis 和 Elysium Space 公司组织的纪念舱。这批货物引发了一些争议；纳瓦霍族反对将太空舱纳入其中，称将人类遗骸沉积在月球上会侵犯神圣空间。