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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United Launch Alliance planned to conduct launches from the Space Coast in 2022 including the debut of its Vulcan Centaur rocket.
United Launch Alliance was awarded roughly 60% of the approximately 30 to 34 missions projected under NSSL Phase 2 and SpaceX was awarded roughly 40%.
In 2020 the Space Force awarded United Launch Alliance and SpaceX five-year contracts for NSSL Phase 2.
United Launch Alliance and its heritage Atlas and Delta launch vehicles have launched every GOES satellite since GOES-A in 1975.
Celestis, Inc. entered into a launch services agreement with United Launch Alliance to host a Celestis Memorial Spaceflight payload aboard the initial flight of ULA’s Vulcan Centaur planned for later 2022.
The GOES-T satellite is scheduled to launch 2022-03-01 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Two Northrop Grumman Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites named GSSAP-5 and GSSAP-6 were launched into orbit on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as part of the USSF-8 mission.
United Launch Alliance scheduled its next launch as the GOES-T mission for NASA on 2022-03-01 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The first two pairs of GSSAP satellites were launched in 2014 and 2016 on ULA Delta IV Medium rockets.
The USSF-8 mission was the third ULA Atlas V rocket launch supported by Northrop Grumman’s 63-inch-diameter Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM 63) solid rocket booster.
The GEM family of solid rocket motors expanded with the development of the GEM 63XL variation to support ULA’s Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, which is scheduled for its first flight later 2022.
Space Systems Command, together with United Launch Alliance and its mission partners, launched the fifth and sixth Northrop Grumman-built Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites on 2022-01-21 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
United Launch Alliance has launched 148 times with 100 percent mission success to date.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched the USSF-8 mission on 2022-01-21.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the USSF-8 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command lifted off on 2022-01-21 at 2:00 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
United Launch Alliance has successfully delivered more than 145 missions to orbit.
To date, United Launch Alliance has launched 147 times with 100 percent mission success.
United Launch Alliance was assigned four missions under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract and won a 60 percent share of up to 35 missions covered under the NSSL Phase 2 competition.
United Launch Alliance projected receiving Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines in mid-2022 and flying the Vulcan Centaur by the end of 2022.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper acquired the last nine Atlas V launches from United Launch Alliance in 2021.