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ULA just had a successful liftoff of the Vulcan rocket with four solid rocket boosters carrying a Space Force payload. Everything looks to be nominal so far.

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Ariane 6 also launched, just 15 minutes prior to Vulcan. The payload was EUMETSATs Metop-SGA1 weather satellite.

paper, rock, scissors on which part goes bang?

anzha said:

paper, rock, scissors on which part goes bang?

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At this point? Who knows? Maybe it will explode on the pad during test runs? Or maybe it will explode during launch? Or maybe you get a successful launch and stage separation but both first and second stage fail at some point... or just maybe you get the Holy Grail and the whole thing works without a hitch.