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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Viasat Inc. selected United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V vehicle to launch one ViaSat-3 satellite mission.
The ULA contract with Viasat is the first commercial contract ULA directly signed since assuming responsibility for marketing and sales of the Atlas V launch vehicle from Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services earlier in 2018.
United Launch Alliance is offering a new vehicle that may not be ready to fly until 2020.
The LSA program seeks a domestic alternative to the Russian RD-180 first-stage engine used on ULA’s Atlas V in order to comply with a law phasing out RD-180 use by 2022.
United Launch Alliance won three contracts valued at $13,900,000 for launch vehicle technologies including testing an integrated vehicle fluids flight demonstration and cryogenic propellant management for its Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage for later Vulcan variants.
The Atlas V launch vehicle that will launch the first Starliner is complete and ready to ship from United Launch Alliance’s factory in Decatur, Alabama, to Florida.
After Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea, the U.S. Congress directed the Air Force to phase out use of the Russian RD-180 first-stage engine in ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket by 2022.
Tory Bruno is president and chief executive of United Launch Alliance and emphasized the need for a healthy launch industry industrial base and that the government should prevent U.S.-taxpayer-funded payloads from being sent overseas to be launched on foreign vehicles from foreign launch pads.
United Launch Alliance selected Aerojet Rocketdyne’s RL-10 engine to power Vulcan’s upper stage.
Stout highlighted that companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin space companies, and United Launch Alliance are reducing costs for access to low Earth orbit.
Aerojet Rocketdyne is developing the RL10C-X with United Launch Alliance, and United Launch Alliance plans to use the RL10C-X in the upper stage of its Vulcan rocket under an agreement reached in May.
United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman purchase RD-180 and RD-181 engines from RD Amross, a Florida-based joint venture of Energomash and Pratt & Whitney.
ULA's Chief Executive Tory Bruno indicated that the August launch will be delayed.
Kelly Gareheime, associate general counsel for United Launch Alliance, did not disclose a public launch timeframe for Boeing's Starliner test flights.
United Launch Alliance selected Orbital ATK boosters in 2015 for future Atlas flights and for its Vulcan next-generation launch vehicle, prompting Aerojet Rocketdyne to close its Atlas 5 booster business.
United Launch Alliance announced in May that it will use the RL10 in the upper stage of its Vulcan rocket and will work with Aerojet Rocketdyne on development of the RL10C-X.
United Launch Alliance was one of several companies seeking Launch Service Agreements from the U.S. Air Force to support continued development of new launch vehicles.
Astrobotic is building robotic lunar landers that will launch on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V.
The BE-4 engine is being developed for Blue Origin’s New Glenn and is a competitor to serve as the first-stage engine for United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.
The Machinists Union members had been on strike for two weeks after rejecting United Launch Alliance’s initial contract offer on 2018-05-06.