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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The 2021 budget includes $560,000,000 to continue funding public-private Launch Service Agreement partnerships signed in 2018 with United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman.
NASA awarded United Launch Alliance a contract in January 2019 to launch the Lucy mission on an Atlas V in October 2021 valued at $148,300,000.
United Launch Alliance provided schedule assurance intended to meet the Lucy mission’s requirement to launch in a 20-day window.
Boeing's vice president and program manager of Starliner, John Mulholland, indicated that the timer problem was not detected in prelaunch testing with United Launch Alliance due to the split testing phases.
SpaceX estimated it could have launched the Lucy mission for significantly less than the $148,300,000 value of ULA’s contract.
United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are competing to be two providers that will receive five-year U.S. National Security Space Launch contracts beginning in 2022.
United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are pitching newly designed launch vehicles projected to fly for the first time in 2021 as part of the U.S. NSSL competition.
Two BE-4 engines will be used on the first stage of ULA’s Vulcan rocket and seven BE-4 engines will be used on the reusable first stage of New Glenn.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 411 launched the Solar Orbiter mission from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on 2020-02-09 at 11:03 p.m. Eastern.
GPS 3 SV02 (Magellan) launched in August aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket and has completed on-orbit testing.
The October 2018 LSA contracts awarded $500,000,000 to Blue Origin, $967,000,000 to United Launch Alliance, and $762,000,000 to Northrop Grumman.
SpaceX is challenging the Air Force’s October 2018 decision to award Launch Service Agreements to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance.
The GEM-63 engine is used on both United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan and Northrop Grumman’s OmegA, creating intertwined engine risks.
Except for SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are offering newly designed rockets that RAND projects will be ready by 2021.
WGS-10 launched on 2019-03-15 on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium rocket.
NASA awarded a $165,700,000 contract to United Launch Alliance to launch GOES-T on an Atlas V.
Eight vendors—SpaceX, Xbow Launch Systems, Northrop Grumman, Firefly Aerospace, United Launch Alliance, Aevum, VOX Space, and Rocket Lab—were selected to compete for OSP-4 missions to launch small and medium payloads over 180 kg.
United Launch Alliance is using a dual-engine Centaur upper stage on the Atlas V for the 2019-12-20 Starliner flight.
A Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy Space Center approved launching Boeing’s Starliner on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V at 6:36 a.m. Eastern on 2019-12-20.
United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman were developing new launch vehicles for the Phase 2 competition and projected first flights of those rockets in 2021.