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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Except for SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are offering newly designed rockets that RAND projects will be ready by 2021.
United Launch Alliance conducts launch operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
United Launch Alliance is building an Atlas V rocket for NASA’s $2,400,000,000 Perseverance rover mission to Mars.
Lockheed Martin attributed the decline in space unit operating profit from 2019-01-01 to 2020-01-01 to lower risk retirements for government satellite programs and a $35,000,000 drop in earnings from its stake in United Launch Alliance.
NASA’s 2020-03-01 rover is scheduled to launch 2020-07-17 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral.
Astrobotic received a CLPS task order in May 2019 to fly the Peregrine lander and plans to launch Peregrine in 2021 on the first flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.
Aerojet Rocketdyne provided the five AJ-60A solid rocket boosters for the Atlas 5 551 launch.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off on 2020-03-26 at 4:18 PM EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the AEHF-6 communications satellite.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying a U.S. Space Force communications satellite is set to lift off 2020-03-26 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
United Launch Alliance was established in 2006 as a Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture to consolidate their launch businesses.
Bigelow Aerospace announced a partnership with United Launch Alliance in April 2016 to use ULA’s Atlas V to launch a B330 module to the ISS as soon as 2020.
United Launch Alliance planned Vulcan Centaur’s maiden launch for early 2021.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V mission carrying the Advanced Extremely High Frequency AEHF-6 satellite remained scheduled for 2020-03-26 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
The Advanced Extremely High Frequency AEHF-6 military communications satellite was scheduled to launch on 2020-03-26, from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
The Huntsville test stand will allow Blue Origin to test production engines and ship them to United Launch Alliance in Decatur and to Florida for New Glenn.
Testing of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines intended for delivery to United Launch Alliance later in 2020 is proceeding as planned.
Blue Origin expects to qualify the BE-4 engine in 2020 and to ship some engines to United Launch Alliance for integration into Vulcan in 2020.
United Launch Alliance selected Orbital ATK as its exclusive supplier of solid boosters for the Atlas 5 rocket and for the Vulcan launch vehicle in 2015.
The Joint Polar Satellite System 2 spacecraft will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2022.
United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman are competing with SpaceX for Launch Service Procurement five-year contracts to be awarded in mid-2020 to two companies.