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 first Dream Chaser cargo mission is scheduled to launch on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket no earlier than September 2021.
SpaceX launched the AMOS-17 telecommunications satellite on a Falcon 9 and 34 hours later United Launch Alliance launched an Air Force communications satellite from a different pad in August.
Boeing expects to conduct an uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) of the Starliner on 2019-12-17 using a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander is scheduled to launch in 2021 on the first flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.
ULA was awarded the AFSPC-7 mission in 2013.
United Launch Alliance will continue to produce the Atlas 5 for NASA’s commercial crew program to send astronauts to the International Space Station.
The Atlas 5 completion contract pays ULA to finish and launch three Atlas 5 rockets procured under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Phase 1 Block Buy contract.
The AEHF-6 and NROL-101 missions were awarded to ULA in 2017.
The 2019-10-01 sole-source contract follows the Air Force awarding ULA its final contract for five Delta 4 Heavy missions one day earlier.
The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded a $98,500,000 contract to United Launch Alliance on 2019-10-01 to complete three Atlas 5 missions scheduled to launch in 2020.
There are six additional Atlas 5 missions that ULA was awarded under the follow-on EELV Phase 1A procurement: STP-3, AFSPC-12, AFSPC-8, Silent Barker, SBIRS GEO 5, and SBIRS GEO 6.
The Air Force previously procured five Delta 4 Heavy rockets for these missions under contracts awarded to ULA in 2017 and 2018.
The $1,180,000,000 contract awarded on 2019-09-30 to ULA is specifically for Launch Operations Support.
The Air Force procured Delta 4 Heavy rockets for NROL-44 and NROL-82 in fiscal year 2017 under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Phase 1 Block Buy contract with ULA.
The Peregrine mission will launch from Florida in Summer 2021 on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur vehicle.
Five missions awarded to ULA under EELV Phase 1 will be launched over the next five years, including two Delta 4 Heavy launches for NROL-44 and NROL-82 and three Atlas 5 missions: NROL-101, AEHF-6, and AFSPC-7.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded United Launch Alliance a five-year $1,180,000,000 contract for Launch Operations Support to complete the last planned five Delta 4 Heavy National Reconnaissance Office missions from 2020 through 2024.
Under the EELV Phase 1 Block Buy contract with ULA, the Air Force agreed to buy 36 launch vehicle booster cores over a five-year period.
Lockheed Martin later formed the United Launch Alliance joint venture with Boeing using upgraded Atlas and Delta rockets.
Boeing participated in the Sea Launch venture to launch Zenit rockets from a modified mobile offshore platform and later ended its involvement to focus on ULA.