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 two STSS satellites launched in 2009 on a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket.
United Launch Alliance received a contract in 2018 to launch USSF-12.
United Launch Alliance postponed USSF-12 on 2022-03-09 due to a customer request.
United Launch Alliance will retire the Atlas 5 by 2025 and plans to start transitioning to the Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, which will use the Blue Origin BE-4 engine made in the United States.
Four Northrop Grumman GEM 63 solid rocket boosters helped launch and deploy NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T) aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on 2022-03-02.
United Launch Alliance has all the RD-180 engines it needs to complete the remaining 24 Atlas 5 launches scheduled between now and 2025, and those engines are stored in the United States.
United Launch Alliance has launched 149 times with 100 percent mission success to date.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the GOES-T spacecraft lifted off on 2022-03-01 at 4:38 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 launched the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) T from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2022-03-01 at 4:38 p.m. Eastern.
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) T satellite is scheduled to launch at 4:38 p.m. Eastern on 2022-03-01 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
United Launch Alliance and its heritage vehicles have launched all 17 operational GOES missions to date.
RD-180 engine exports from Russia continued after 2014, prompting the U.S. launch sector and United Launch Alliance to seek alternative propulsion.
United Launch Alliance has contracts to launch about 25 more missions for government and commercial customers on the Atlas 5 between now and 2025.
United Launch Alliance stores the RD-180 rocket engines needed to complete the Atlas 5 fly-out in its factory in Decatur, Alabama.
On 2022-02-15, United Launch Alliance reached an agreement with Milling Precision in Wichita, Kansas to supply components for the Atlas 5 rocket.
United Launch Alliance is preparing to launch the new Vulcan rocket with a domestically produced engine.
United Launch Alliance contracted with Milling Precision in Wichita, Kansas to supply components for the Atlas V rocket.
United Launch Alliance has successfully delivered more than 145 missions to orbit.
A 2014 Antares launch failure led Orbital ATK, later acquired by Northrop Grumman, to use United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket for two Cygnus missions in 2015 and 2016.
United Launch Alliance manufactures Atlas, Delta, and Vulcan Centaur rockets in Decatur, Alabama.