United Launch Alliance (ULA) is an American launch service provider, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. As a launch provider, ULA designs, assembles, sells, and launches rockets like the Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur, providing access to space for national security payloads, commercial satellites, and deep-space exploration missions. Its primary customers include the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and commercial entities. Key activities involve launch services, rocket development, and partnerships with organizations like NASA and ESA for various space missions.
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The procurement of 77 heavy-lift rockets from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and ULA provides enough capacity to launch the majority of Project Kuiper’s satellite constellation.
Amazon earlier procured 77 heavy-lift rockets from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance.
The partnership between ULA and NASA involves designing an aeroshell that is 10 meters across.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement to advance LOFTID technology.
Amazon previously procured 77 heavy-lift rockets from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance.
The 77 heavy-lift rockets procured from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and ULA provide enough capacity to launch the majority of the Project Kuiper constellation.
Amazon has ordered eight Atlas V and 38 Vulcan rockets from United Launch Alliance.
Following successful tests of two prototypes that United Launch Alliance launched to low Earth orbit in October, Amazon is ready to begin producing the rest of the Project Kuiper constellation for a launch campaign kicking off in the first half of 2024.
A pension fund filed a lawsuit against Amazon’s board of directors alleging they acted in bad faith by approving the bulk of Kuiper launches to rockets developed by United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, and Blue Origin without considering SpaceX.
United Launch Alliance ordered 116 RL10C-X engines in 2022 for future Vulcan launches.
United Launch Alliance selected the RL10C-X in 2018 to power the Centaur upper stage on Vulcan through a competitive procurement.
An Ars Technica report on 2023-11-13 identified three companies, including Blue Origin, as finalists to acquire United Launch Alliance.
United Launch Alliance plans to ramp up Vulcan launch cadence to twice a month by the end of 2025.
United Launch Alliance received 11 mission assignments in Order Year 5 of the NSSL Phase 2 contract.
ViaSat-3 F2 was previously slated to launch on an Atlas 5 rocket from United Launch Alliance to cover Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
OTV-6 launched in May 2020 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V and landed in November 2022 after spending 908 days on orbit.
Sierra Space plans to launch Dream Chaser from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on United Launch Alliance’s second Vulcan Centaur rocket.
Space Systems Command assigned 21 national security launch missions to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract the companies won in 2020.
Astrobotic's Mission Control Center (AMCC) will take control of the Peregrine lunar lander after it separates from the ULA rocket.
The Peregrine lunar lander was unloaded at Astrotech facilities for integration with United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan.