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 the STP-3 launch for the U.S. Space Force from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2021-11-22.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by United Launch Alliance at 5:34 a.m. ET on 2021-10-16.
United Launch Alliance had launched 146 times with 100 percent mission success prior to the Lucy mission.
GOES-T will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket.
CesiumAstro launched and deployed its first two satellites featuring its communications payloads on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket.
CesiumAstro, Inc. launched and deployed the first of its two satellites featuring its communications payload aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket.
CesiumAstro launched its first two satellites aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket on 2021-09-29.
Lucy is scheduled to launch in the predawn hours of 2021-10-16 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The United Launch Alliance Centaur stage for the Lucy mission was lifted into the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 2021-09-16.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 401 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 2:12 p.m. Eastern.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:12 a.m. PDT on 2021-09-27 carrying NASA’s Landsat 9 and multiple smallsat payloads.
United Launch Alliance had launched 144 times to date with a 100 percent mission success record prior to the Landsat 9 launch.
The Atlas V Landsat 9 mission used a dual-orbit profile that deployed Landsat 9 and the smallsats into two different orbits, enabling ULA’s first four-burn Centaur mission on an Atlas V rocket.
For the ULA Atlas V rocket, Northrop Grumman produced a 10-foot-diameter composite heat shield.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 launch vehicle carried the NASA–U.S. Geological Survey Landsat 9 Observatory satellite and four cubesats from the U.S. Space Force’s Mission Manifest Office on the 2021-09-27 mission.
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command selected Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance to participate in technology development projects on 2021-09-24.
SSC’s Launch Enterprise awarded a FY21 prototype project for Uplink Command and Control for Centaur V to United Launch Alliance for $24,350,000.
United Launch Alliance will receive $24,300,000 for uplink command and control for Centaur 5, the upper stage of ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.
United Launch Alliance has purchased all the RD-180 engines it requires for the Atlas V and has 29 Atlas V vehicles remaining with RD-180s stored in a warehouse in Alabama.
NASA selected SpaceX to launch GOES-U, the last in a series of geostationary weather satellites previously launched by United Launch Alliance.