Vulcan

United Launch Alliance is under contract to provide 47 launches for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, including 38 launches on Vulcan.

United Launch Alliance plans to retire the Delta IV Heavy in 2024 to make room for the Vulcan rocket.

United Launch Alliance plans to retire the Delta 4 Heavy and replace it with the Vulcan Centaur rocket.

BE-4 engines for Vulcan’s first stage are being tested at Blue Origin’s West Texas facility and will be delivered to ULA’s factory in Decatur, Alabama in the coming weeks.

United Launch Alliance announced an order of 38 Vulcan launches from Amazon for Project Kuiper days before ULA’s April 2022 RL10 engine order.

United Launch Alliance must start flying Vulcan and complete two commercial orbital missions successfully to receive certification to launch U.S. military and intelligence satellites under the National Security Space Launch program.

The GEM 63XL booster is scheduled to support United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket in the extended-length variation’s first flight later 2022.

Each GEM 63XL booster will provide 210,126 kg of additional thrust to the Vulcan Centaur rocket.

GPS III-7 is the seventh of ten projected GPS III missions and is planned to launch onboard a Vulcan Centaur rocket from the eastern range into medium Earth orbit.

The cargo version of Dream Chaser will launch on Vulcan rockets starting in 2023.

Astrobotic expects Peregrine to launch in the fourth quarter of 2022, a schedule that depends on both the readiness of the lander and of ULA’s Vulcan.

Winning the Amazon Project Kuiper launch deal would more than double the annual rate of Vulcan launches to as many as 25 per year.

United Launch Alliance plans to fly Vulcan’s first mission late in 2022.

United Launch Alliance selected a variant of the RL10 as Vulcan’s upper-stage engine in 2018.

United Launch Alliance awarded the largest RL10 contract ever to Aerojet Rocketdyne to deliver 116 RL10C-X engines for the Vulcan Centaur rocket.

The U.S. government has invested more than $1,000,000,000 in United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket and its Blue Origin–supplied BE-4 engines.

The Spaceflight Processing Operations Center at Cape Canaveral was upgraded to assemble a new Vulcan launch platform and will serve as the basis for United Launch Alliance’s second vertical integration facility.

Amazon is buying 38 Vulcan launches from United Launch Alliance.