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 received a $337,000,000 contract on 2021-08-07 for two Phase 2 missions planned for fiscal year 2022.
United Launch Alliance has begun testing Vulcan’s core stage at the launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
United Launch Alliance faces a 2022 deadline to launch the first national security mission under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract.
Millennium Engineering and Integration received a $13,200,000 award from the U.S. Space Force on 2021-02-19 for services in support of the certification of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan are also aiming for debut launches in 2021 and are powered by BE-4 methalox engines.
2020-03-01 launched on 2020-07-30, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
OFT-2 will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
United Launch Alliance had launched 142 times to date with 100 percent mission success.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in the 541 configuration launched NASA’s 2020-03-01 mission with Perseverance and Ingenuity on 2020-07-30.
The Peregrine lunar lander is scheduled to launch in late 2021 on the first flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.
Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance, warns that there are too many venture-funded space launch companies competing for a fixed number of customers.
Vulcan Centaur is United Launch Alliance’s next-generation launch vehicle designed to provide higher performance and greater affordability while delivering reliability.
United Launch Alliance modified pad and facility work was completed without impacting Atlas V mission manifest operations.
United Launch Alliance partnered with Hensel Phelps to build a new mobile launch platform to support Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur rockets launching from the same pad.
In 2020 the U.S. Space Force competitively selected ULA’s Vulcan Centaur as the best-value launch provider for 60 percent of launches occurring through 2027.
United Launch Alliance modified Space Launch Complex-41 and the processing facilities in support of Vulcan Centaur’s inaugural launch later 2021.
United Launch Alliance plans to retire the Delta IV Heavy by the middle of the decade as it transitions to the Vulcan Centaur.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Launch Service Agreements to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance in October 2018.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX were selected for the National Security Space Launch program in August 2020, defeating Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman has supplied rocket propulsion to United Launch Alliance and ULA’s heritage companies since 1964.