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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Peregrine will undergo thermal vacuum testing before being sent to Cape Canaveral, Florida for integration with ULA’s Vulcan Centaur.
The current Block 1 SLS uses the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage manufactured by United Launch Alliance at its Decatur, Alabama factory.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket delivered SES-20 and SES-21 to a near-geosynchronous orbit, enabling rapid commissioning of SES-21.
SES-21 was launched by United Launch Alliance in tandem with SES-20 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket delivered SES-20 and SES-21 to a near-geosynchronous orbit.
United Launch Alliance launched SES-21 in tandem with SES-20 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
ULA’s Atlas V rocket delivered SES-20 and SES-21 to a near-geosynchronous orbit that enabled SES-21 to enter service quickly.
SES-21 was launched by United Launch Alliance in tandem with SES-20 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, managed the Atlas V launch for JPSS-2.
NASA launched the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for NOAA at 1:49 a.m. PST on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Space Systems Command seeks Blue Origin to challenge United Launch Alliance and SpaceX when their five-year NSSL contracts are up for recompete in 2024.
The first two BE-4 engines were delivered to United Launch Alliance for its first Vulcan Centaur launch.
United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno expects to launch Vulcan in the first quarter of 2023.
Space Systems Command terminated the Launch Service Agreement in December 2020 after Blue Origin lost to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX in the NSSL Phase 2 launch services competition.
The New Glenn booster will be powered by seven BE-4 engines that Blue Origin developed jointly with United Launch Alliance.
United Launch Alliance partnered with NASA on the LOFTID flight and is interested in using HIAD technology to recover the engine section of its Vulcan rocket for reuse.
ULA and SpaceX are under contract to launch as many as 35 U.S. military and intelligence missions under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 award the companies won in 2020.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 mission for NOAA and NASA and NASA’s LOFTID lifted off on 2022-11-10 at 1:49 a.m. PST from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
United Launch Alliance has launched 155 times with 100 percent mission success to date.
OTV-6 launched to orbit on 2020-05-17 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.