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 plans the final Delta 4 Heavy mission for the second half of 2023.
RUAG USA is producing the 5.4-meter autoclave composite fairing in a facility located within the ULA Decatur factory and has moved all production of composite structures it builds for Atlas and Vulcan to Decatur.
United Launch Alliance has successfully delivered more than 130 satellites to orbit.
United Launch Alliance is building the Vulcan class of space launch vehicles at the factory Boeing opened in Decatur, Alabama in 1998 to make Delta rockets.
Vulcan Centaur is being offered by ULA as a single vehicle to perform missions currently done by Atlas and Delta and to compete for NASA, commercial, and Air Force Phase 2 missions.
United Launch Alliance is financing factory improvements with funds awarded in October 2018 by the U.S. Air Force under the Launch Service Agreement contract.
United Launch Alliance has delivered more than 130 satellites to orbit.
Astrobotic selected United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket to launch its Peregrine lunar lander to the Moon in 2021.
Blue Origin is testing the BE-4 extensively at its facility in West Texas and will build two qualification engines for further testing before delivering two flight engines to ULA for integration at the Decatur factory.
The Air Force will not be able to fly satellites on the Russian-engine-powered Atlas beyond 2022, motivating ULA to design Vulcan with a domestically produced engine.
Sierra Nevada Corporation originally planned to use ULA’s Atlas V for at least the initial Dream Chaser mission that was scheduled for late 2020.
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s working relationship with United Launch Alliance dates back to plans under NASA’s commercial crew program to launch a crewed version of Dream Chaser on an Atlas V.
Sierra Nevada Corporation selected United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan launch vehicle to send Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station starting in late 2021.
United Launch Alliance and Sierra Nevada Corporation included an option to shift Dream Chaser launches to Atlas V if Vulcan experiences delays.
Dream Chaser will be the commercial debut payload for ULA’s Vulcan, with the first Dream Chaser mission in late 2021 planned to fly on Vulcan’s second flight.
The Air Force awarded a Launch Service Agreement in 2018 to Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman to help pay for rocket development and infrastructure.
United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and Blue Origin are developing new rockets and upgrading existing vehicles for the Phase 2 competition.
The Air Force’s AEHF-5 communications satellite reached orbit after separating from a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket approximately 5 hours and 40 minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
United Launch Alliance launched the AEHF-5 communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center on an Atlas V rocket.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center negotiated with United Launch Alliance savings of approximately $27,500,000 per launch for the three Delta 4 Heavy missions.