United Launch Alliance (ULA)

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Amazon’s satellite internet system Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) is a significant customer of United Launch Alliance.

ORG RELATIONSHIP12/27/2025ULA, Tory Bruno lascia la guida dell’azienda dopo quasi 12 anni

ULA successfully launched 27 Amazon LEO satellites.

TECHNICAL PRODUCT12/16/2025ULA successfully launched another 27 Amazon Leo satellites this morning! This was the final Amazon Leo launch of the year, and the last expected to launch on Atlas V for the next few months with the next couple of missions expected to launch on Vulcan, Ariane 6, and New Glenn.

United Launch Alliance successfully launched ViaSat-3 F2 using an Atlas V rocket.

TECHNICAL PRODUCT11/14/2025Last night ULA successfully launched ViaSat-3 F2! The Atlas V rocket deployed the satellite into an "enhanced" GTO with a higher perigee. Over the next couple of months the satellite will raise itself to GEO, where it'll be positioned over the Americas to replace ViaSat-3 F1.

The Launch Readiness Review for ULA's Atlas V rocket with the ViaSat-3 Flight 2 satellite is complete and approved for launch.

NARRATIVE GENERAL11/6/2025UPDATE: Scrubbed for ULA’s launch of ViaSat-3 F2 mission due to technical difficulties

United Launch Alliance plans to launch the Atlas V 551 rocket carrying the ViaSat-3 Flight 2 mission on November 3, 2025.

NARRATIVE GROWTH10/22/2025RT by @GewoonLukas_: United Launch Alliance Atlas V ViaSat-3 Flight 2 Planned for Nov. 3 The launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket carrying the ViaSat-3 Flight 2 (F2) mission for @viasat is planned for no earlier than Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, pending range approval. The launch is scheduled for 10:36 p.m. EST at the opening of a 44-minute window, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

ULA will deliver more than half of the Project Kuiper constellation's 3,200 satellites through the world's largest commercial launch agreement.

NARRATIVE GENERAL9/25/2025United Launch Alliance launches Amazon’s Project Kuiper 3 mission sending 27 operational broadband satellites connecting the world

The United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket had its inaugural launch on January 8, 2024.

NARRATIVE GENERAL9/2/2025The intersection of cultural beliefs and mythos with non-governmental space activities and its potential impact to national interests and great power competition

Amazon’s Kuiper program contracted up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance, which is characterized as the largest commercial launch deal and could imply launch Capex as high as $6,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000 at current market prices.

NARRATIVE GENERAL6/7/2024SpaceX and the categorical imperative to achieve low launch cost

ULA successfully launched the first operational Delta IV Heavy on 2007-11-10, carrying a Defense Support Program satellite.

NARRATIVE GENERAL3/28/2024ULA Delta IV Heavy scrubbed at T-00:03:58 update to ‘issue’

United Launch Alliance successfully launched the first operational Delta IV Heavy on 2007-11-10 carrying a Defense Support Program satellite.

NARRATIVE GENERAL3/26/2024L-2 and a grand finale on Thursday for ULA’s Delta IV Heavy in NROL-70 mission

United Launch Alliance achieved the successful inaugural launch of Vulcan Centaur on 2024-01-08.

NARRATIVE GENERAL3/20/2024Launch providers look for competitive advantages in era of transition

The National Reconnaissance Office plans to launch one of its largest-ever satellites on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy vehicle.

NARRATIVE GROWTH3/18/2024National Reconnaissance Office embracing mix of big and small satellites

United Launch Alliance successfully launched its Vulcan rocket in January 2024.

TECHNICAL PRODUCT3/4/2024Taking stock of the US space program

United Launch Alliance won the largest share of the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts in 2020.

NARRATIVE GENERAL2/11/2024Bruno trumpets transformation of ULA after Vulcan launch

Most previous Cygnus missions launched on Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket, except two that launched on United Launch Alliance Atlas V vehicles after an Antares launch failure in 2014.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/30/2024Falcon 9 launches Cygnus cargo spacecraft to space station

Two Northrop Grumman-built GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters provided additional thrust to help launch the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/10/2024Northrop Grumman’s solid rocket boosters help power first launch of ULA’s Vulcan rocket

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan VC2S rocket will launch the Cert-1 certification mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

NARRATIVE PLAN1/7/2024UPDATE #5: L-1 for launch of ULA’s Vulcan flight test, fingers crossed

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan VC2S rocket is planned to lift off on 2024-01-08 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida with a launch window opening at 2:18 a.m. EST.

NARRATIVE GOVERNANCE1/5/2024UPDATE 4: L-2 as ULA preps for launch of Vulcan rocket

The mission designated Cert-1 is Vulcan’s first launch and the first of two certification flights ULA must perform to gain U.S. Space Force approval to launch national security payloads.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/5/2024Vulcan on the pad for its first launch

United Launch Alliance completed the launch readiness review for the inaugural flight of its Vulcan Centaur rocket, mission Cert-1, on 2024-01-04.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/4/2024NASA instruments set to fly on Peregrine commercial lunar lander

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