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 announced in 2015 that it would build the Vulcan rocket as its next-generation vehicle to replace Atlas 5 and Delta 4.
United Launch Alliance will start integrating delivered BE-4 flight engines into a flight booster at its rocket factory in Decatur, Alabama.
The U.S. Space Force awarded one of two National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts to United Launch Alliance in August 2020.
Starliner will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
United Launch Alliance stated that a 2021-07-31 launch could be reconsidered if the classified Eastern Range operation does not take place.
United Launch Alliance will launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission.
Future Space Development Agency launches will be procured from either United Launch Alliance or SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch program.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX were selected last year as the NSSL Phase 2 launch providers for the period from 2022 until 2027.
Future Space Development Agency launches will be procured from either United Launch Alliance or SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch program.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX were selected as the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 launch providers for 2022 through 2027.
OFT-2 is scheduled to launch 2021-07-30 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V.
Interns from United Launch Alliance launched three high-power sport rockets carrying more than 20 payloads created by K-12 students and interns from Ball Aerospace and Special Aerospace Services on 2021-07-17.
ESPA rings were originally developed to carry secondary payloads on Pentagon-funded Atlas V and Delta IV launches and have become a standard for accommodating small satellites on EELV-class and commercial launches such as United Launch Alliance vehicles and SpaceX Falcon 9.
United Launch Alliance selected K-12 student payloads to launch aboard three intern-built sport rockets at the 2021 Student Rocket Launch.
Since 2009, United Launch Alliance summer interns have built and launched high-power sport rockets containing payloads designed and built by Ball Aerospace interns participating in the Ball Intern Remote Sensing Team program.
Volunteer interns from Ball Aerospace and K-12 students design and build payloads that launch on United Launch Alliance intern-built rockets.
Since 2010, United Launch Alliance has invited K-12 student teams to design and build their own payloads to launch in the Student Rocket Launch program.
United Launch Alliance’s three intern-built sport rockets will launch 21 Ball Aerospace intern and K-12 student payloads thousands of feet above the ground in 2021.
United Launch Alliance indicated that customer payload delays, rather than Vulcan technical issues, could delay the Peregrine launch into 2022.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander had been scheduled to launch in late 2021 as the payload on the inaugural United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur launch.