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 OFT-2 flight test began Thursday, 2022-05-19 when Starliner launched on the ULA Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Nanoracks, Maxar, and United Launch Alliance were among six teams selected by NASA in 2017 to prototype technologies in support of deep space habitats.
Boeing and United Launch Alliance remain committed to launching future CST-100 Starliner commercial crew missions on Atlas 5 rockets even after Atlas 5 is effectively retired for other missions.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket lifted off on 2022-05-19 at 6:54 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on Orbital Flight Test-2 to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
United Launch Alliance’s next launch is the USSF-12 mission for the U.S. Space Force planned for 2022-06-29 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
United Launch Alliance has launched 150 times with 100 percent mission success to date.
To date, United Launch Alliance has launched 149 times with 100 percent mission success.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is in final preparations to launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
The CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman (previously Orbital ATK) provided medium- and heavy-class launch services for the US market in 2021.
Boeing moved the Starliner spacecraft from a processing facility at Kennedy Space Center to a United Launch Alliance vehicle processing facility at Space Launch Complex 40 on 2022-05-04.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won National Security Space Launch Phase 2 five-year contracts in 2020.
United Launch Alliance plans to make major investments in its supply chain to support as many as 20 to 25 launches per year of its Vulcan Centaur vehicle.
Northrop Grumman is anticipating a $2,000,000,000 contract from United Launch Alliance for solid rocket boosters expected in the second quarter of 2022.
United Launch Alliance decided in 2015 to stop buying solid rockets from Aerojet Rocketdyne and selected Orbital ATK as its strategic supplier of strap-on motors.
Under the Phase 2 awards, United Launch Alliance received 60% of the projected national security missions and SpaceX received 40% over the five-year contract.
Astrobotic expects Peregrine to launch in the fourth quarter of 2022, a schedule that depends on both the readiness of the lander and of ULA’s Vulcan.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper announced an agreement to buy up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance.
United Launch Alliance will launch the majority of the Project Kuiper satellite constellation to provide high-speed, low-latency broadband service to places not reached by traditional networks.
Winning the Amazon Project Kuiper launch deal would more than double the annual rate of Vulcan launches to as many as 25 per year.