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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Amazon selected Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance on 2022-04-05 to launch up to 3,236 satellites for Project Kuiper.
United Launch Alliance plans to fly Vulcan’s first mission late in 2022.
United Launch Alliance selected a variant of the RL10 as Vulcan’s upper-stage engine in 2018.
United Launch Alliance awarded the largest RL10 contract ever to Aerojet Rocketdyne to deliver 116 RL10C-X engines for the Vulcan Centaur rocket.
Aerojet Rocketdyne received an order from United Launch Alliance for 116 engines for the upper stage of ULA’s Vulcan Centaur on 2022-04-11.
A 2015 congressional mandate to end the U.S. military’s reliance on the Russian RD-180 engine led ULA to develop the Vulcan Centaur as its next-generation rocket.
Caleb Henry, a Senior Analyst at Quilty Analytics, moderated a panel featuring launch contract winners Arianespace CEO Stephane Israel, Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith, and ULA CEO Tory Bruno.
The U.S. government has invested more than $1,000,000,000 in United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket and its Blue Origin–supplied BE-4 engines.
Amazon purchased up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance for Project Kuiper.
The Spaceflight Processing Operations Center at Cape Canaveral was upgraded to assemble a new Vulcan launch platform and will serve as the basis for United Launch Alliance’s second vertical integration facility.
United Launch Alliance has launched over 145 missions and maintains a 100 percent mission success legacy.
Amazon is buying 38 Vulcan launches from United Launch Alliance.
United Launch Alliance began coordinating with major suppliers about the need to increase production for Kuiper launches one year before the 2022-04-05 Space Symposium briefing.
Amazon is purchasing up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance to deploy most of its 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper, in contracts worth several billion dollars.
Amazon selected United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan rocket for 38 launches to support Project Kuiper deployment.
United Launch Alliance estimates a Vulcan launch rate of 20 to 25 rockets per year to support Project Kuiper.
After an Antares launch failure in 2014, Orbital Sciences replaced the original AJ26 engines with RD-181 engines and launched two Cygnus missions on United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets.
United Launch Alliance has completed Vulcan’s stage design and is building the vehicle.
United Launch Alliance expects to receive the first two BE-4 flight models in mid-2022, which supports a Vulcan launch before the end of 2022.
USSF-12 was planned as a two-satellite mission that United Launch Alliance was preparing to launch in April on an Atlas V rocket.