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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After completing the hardware tests, United Launch Alliance plans to add payloads to the Vulcan rocket and proceed to final launch preparations.
The Vulcan Centaur rocket's booster and Centaur upper stage arrived at Cape Canaveral on January 21 from the ULA factory in Decatur, Alabama.
United Launch Alliance plans to conduct a wet dress rehearsal for the Vulcan rocket where it will be filled with propellants and undergo a practice countdown.
The seven-day record was set in 2014 with United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 541 launching DMSP-19 from SLC-3 East at Vandenberg and Atlas V 401 launching NROL-67 from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral.
United Launch Alliance received the task order for GPS SV-07 in May 2022 under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 agreement that splits national security missions 60/40 between ULA and SpaceX.
The United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket has begun its journey to the launch site in preparation for its first test flight.
Upon arrival at Cape Canaveral, the Vulcan hardware will be transferred to ULA facilities for inspections and processing.
The ULA team has completed production of the Vulcan rocket for its first certification flight.
Phase 3 would create on-ramps for additional competitors compared to Phase 2, where only ULA and SpaceX were selected to launch all national security missions over five years.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won the NSSL Phase 2 competition in 2020 and their Phase 2 contracts will be re-competed in 2024.
Virgin Orbit initiated a formal investigation into the 2023-01-09 failure led by Chad Foerster, chief engineer and vice president of technology, and Jim Sponnick, former vice president of Atlas and Delta programs at United Launch Alliance.
The Boeing-built SES-20 was launched by United Launch Alliance in tandem with SES-21 from Cape Canaveral, Florida in October 2022.
CBAS-1 was made by Boeing and launched to geostationary orbit in 2018 on the AFSPC-11 mission aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
SES-20 was launched by United Launch Alliance in tandem with SES-21 from Cape Canaveral, Florida in October 2022.
SES-20 was launched by United Launch Alliance in tandem with SES-21 from Cape Canaveral, Florida in October 2022.
SES-21 was launched in tandem with SES-20 by United Launch Alliance from Cape Canaveral, Florida in October 2022.
Prior to the U.S. Air Force certifying SpaceX’s Falcon 9 for national security launches in 2015, United Launch Alliance was the U.S. military’s only launch provider.
United Launch Alliance plans to retire the Atlas V rocket, which uses the Russian-made RD-180 engine.
The acceptance tests proved that Peregrine can withstand the flight environment of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur.
Peregrine Mission One will be launched on ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.