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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A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket is launching the NROL-91 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office on 2022-09-24 at 2:53 p.m. PDT (5:53 p.m. EDT; 2153 UTC).
United Launch Alliance took over Space Launch Complex-6 in 2000 and refitted it to serve as the west coast home for the Delta IV launch vehicle family with modifications to the Assembly Building, Mobile Service Tower, Launch Tower, and other support structures.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won NSSL Phase 2 in 2020.
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.
Boeing delivered two satellites for SES to their launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida ahead of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch.
The Peregrine lander is scheduled to launch as soon as late 2023 on the inaugural United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur mission.
Boeing has delivered two satellites for SES to the firm’s launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida ahead of their upcoming launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
The SES-20 and SES-21 mission will use a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for launch.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit-6 (SBIRS GEO 6) mission lifted off on 2022-08-04 at 6:29 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The facility expansion will support a new contract award Northrop Grumman received from United Launch Alliance in June.
United Launch Alliance has launched 152 times with 100 percent mission success to date.
United Launch Alliance collaborated with the U.S. Space Force to form a human "75" next to the SBIRS GEO-6 launch vehicle in honor of the U.S. Air Force’s 75th anniversary.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying a U.S. Space Force missile-warning satellite lifted off on 2022-08-04 at 6:29 a.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit-6 (SBIRS GEO-6) mission lifted off on 2022-08-04 at 6:29 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
United Launch Alliance plans to retire the Atlas 5 in the near future as it seeks to end its reliance on the Russian RD-180 engine.
To date, United Launch Alliance has launched 152 times with 100 percent mission success.
United Launch Alliance announced an order of 38 Vulcan launches from Amazon for Project Kuiper days before ULA’s April 2022 RL10 engine order.
Astrobotic plans to launch the Peregrine lander as soon as late 2022 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur.
ROOSTER is based on the Northrop Grumman ESPAStar payload adapter, a ring-shaped bus designed to ride as a secondary payload on national security space missions launched by United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.
United Launch Alliance provided live countdown status updates from launch control through spacecraft separation in geosynchronous orbit and started a launch webcast 20 minutes before liftoff.