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 was seeking to perform a first launch of Vulcan in mid-2020.
NASA is procuring two additional ICPS units from United Launch Alliance based on the Delta IV upper stage.
Jeff Bezos and Tory Bruno held a joint news conference four years before the Vulcan selection to announce that ULA would help support development of the BE-4 as a replacement for the RD-180.
United Launch Alliance unveiled the vehicle that became Vulcan in 2015.
United Launch Alliance selected Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine for the first stage of its Vulcan rocket on 2018-09-27.
Viasat chose United Launch Alliance over SpaceX and Arianespace for the ViaSat-3 Atlas 5 launch.
United Launch Alliance won the ViaSat-3 launch contract with a price that Viasat considered competitive.
For United Launch Alliance, the ViaSat-3 deal is its first commercial Atlas 5 contract since taking over commercial Atlas 5 sales from Lockheed Martin in January.
On 2018-09-10 at World Satellite Business Week in Paris, Viasat contracted United Launch Alliance to launch a ViaSat-3 broadband satellite on an Atlas 5 between 2020 and 2022.
United Launch Alliance has performed eight to 14 launches per year since 2013 but launched only four commercial satellites during that period.
United Launch Alliance attributed the commercial Atlas 5 win to the rocket’s schedule availability, its 78 consecutive successes, and the ability to fly a custom trajectory that reduces orbit-raising time for the all-electric ViaSat-3 satellite.
United Launch Alliance will use a pair of Blue Origin BE-4 engines using liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the first stage of its Vulcan rocket expected to make a first launch in mid-2020.
On 2018-09-27 United Launch Alliance selected Blue Origin's LOX/LNG BE-4 engine to power the first stage of the Vulcan rocket.
The ULA–Blue Origin announcement comes four years after the companies first announced their partnership to develop the BE-4.
United Launch Alliance selected Blue Origin to provide the main engine for its next-generation Vulcan launch vehicle on 2018-09-27.
United Launch Alliance plans a first launch of the Vulcan rocket in 2020.
In April (year unspecified in source), the Air Force Research Laboratory launched the ESPA Augmented Geosynchronous Satellite known as Eagle on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.
The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:02 a.m. Eastern.
United Launch Alliance won a launch contract to launch one of Viasat’s ViaSat-3 satellites.
ULA will use the Atlas V 551 variant, equipped with a 5-meter payload fairing and five strap-on boosters, to lift the ViaSat-3 satellite.