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United Launch Alliance had been working toward a 2023-12-24 launch at 1:49 a.m. Eastern for the Vulcan Centaur.
United Launch Alliance attempted a wet dress rehearsal two days before 2023-12-10 but was not able to complete the practice countdown.
United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan Centaur launch is likely delayed to early January to allow time to complete a full wet dress rehearsal.
Amazon earlier procured 77 heavy-lift rockets from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance.
The procurement of 77 heavy-lift rockets from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and ULA provides enough capacity to launch the majority of Project Kuiper’s satellite constellation.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement to advance LOFTID technology.
The partnership between ULA and NASA involves designing an aeroshell that is 10 meters across.
The 77 heavy-lift rockets procured from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and ULA provide enough capacity to launch the majority of the Project Kuiper constellation.
Amazon previously procured 77 heavy-lift rockets from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance.
A pension fund filed a lawsuit against Amazon’s board of directors alleging they acted in bad faith by approving the bulk of Kuiper launches to rockets developed by United Launch Alliance, Arianespace, and Blue Origin without considering SpaceX.
Following successful tests of two prototypes that United Launch Alliance launched to low Earth orbit in October, Amazon is ready to begin producing the rest of the Project Kuiper constellation for a launch campaign kicking off in the first half of 2024.
Amazon has ordered eight Atlas V and 38 Vulcan rockets from United Launch Alliance.
United Launch Alliance selected the RL10C-X in 2018 to power the Centaur upper stage on Vulcan through a competitive procurement.
United Launch Alliance ordered 116 RL10C-X engines in 2022 for future Vulcan launches.
An Ars Technica report on 2023-11-13 identified three companies, including Blue Origin, as finalists to acquire United Launch Alliance.
United Launch Alliance plans to ramp up Vulcan launch cadence to twice a month by the end of 2025.
United Launch Alliance received 11 mission assignments in Order Year 5 of the NSSL Phase 2 contract.
ViaSat-3 F2 was previously slated to launch on an Atlas 5 rocket from United Launch Alliance to cover Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
OTV-6 launched in May 2020 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V and landed in November 2022 after spending 908 days on orbit.
Sierra Space plans to launch Dream Chaser from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on United Launch Alliance’s second Vulcan Centaur rocket.