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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United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won NSSL Phase 2 in 2020 and their current contracts will be recompeted under Phase 3.
The Space Force initially planned to award five-year Lane 2 contracts to two providers, modeled after the Phase 2 agreements with ULA and SpaceX.
Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and other suppliers are working to increase BE-4 production to meet a target rate of 25 engines a year by mid-2025 under the initiative referred to as "25 in ’25."
United Launch Alliance is working with Cert-1’s primary customer, Astrobotic, to identify launch windows in the fourth quarter for Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander.
A Centaur that had already been shipped to Cape Canaveral and tested for the inaugural launch will be returned to ULA’s Decatur, Alabama, factory for modifications.
United Launch Alliance delayed the Vulcan launch on 2023-06-24 to make minor reinforcements to the Centaur upper stage.
United Launch Alliance has delivered more than 100 satellites to orbit.
ULA has executed rideshare partnerships with NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and commercial customers to deliver missions to orbits from low Earth orbit to the Moon.
NSSL Phase 3 Lane 2 is modeled after the Phase 2 procurement that United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won in 2020.
United Launch Alliance completed an investigation into an anomaly during a 2023-03-29 test of a Centaur at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
United Launch Alliance completed a review of data from the Flight Readiness Firing of the Vulcan booster’s BE-4 engines on 2023-06-07 and concluded that all test objectives were successfully achieved.
United Launch Alliance has several Centaur stages at its Decatur factory, and one of those stages will be used to complete the qualification testing interrupted by the March incident.
United Launch Alliance will host a media teleconference in the next few weeks to provide more details about the Centaur modifications and Cert-1 schedule.
United Launch Alliance did not disclose a schedule for completing the Centaur qualification testing, performing the Centaur modifications, or rescheduling the inaugural Vulcan Centaur launch called Cert-1.
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-68 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off on 2023-06-22 from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
United Launch Alliance has launched 156 times with 100 percent mission success to date.
The NROL-68 payload was launched into Geosynchronous Earth Orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy for the National Reconnaissance Office.
United Launch Alliance has launched 156 times with 100 percent mission success to date.
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-68 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37B at 5:18 a.m. Eastern on 2023-06-22.
United Launch Alliance launched a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite on a Delta 4 Heavy rocket on 2023-06-22 at 5:18 a.m. Eastern.