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United Launch Alliance plans to retire the Atlas 5 in the near future as it seeks to end its reliance on the Russian RD-180 engine.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit-6 (SBIRS GEO-6) mission lifted off on 2022-08-04 at 6:29 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
To date, United Launch Alliance has launched 152 times with 100 percent mission success.
United Launch Alliance announced an order of 38 Vulcan launches from Amazon for Project Kuiper days before ULA’s April 2022 RL10 engine order.
Astrobotic plans to launch the Peregrine lander as soon as late 2022 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur.
ROOSTER is based on the Northrop Grumman ESPAStar payload adapter, a ring-shaped bus designed to ride as a secondary payload on national security space missions launched by United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.
United Launch Alliance provided live countdown status updates from launch control through spacecraft separation in geosynchronous orbit and started a launch webcast 20 minutes before liftoff.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launched the USSF-12 mission on 2022-07-01.
United Launch Alliance is slated to launch two SES C-band replacement satellites in the third quarter of 2022.
The National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts awarded to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX in 2020 are up for recompete in 2024.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won five-year National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts in 2020 to launch as many as 35 military and intelligence space missions.
United Launch Alliance must start flying Vulcan and complete two commercial orbital missions successfully to receive certification to launch U.S. military and intelligence satellites under the National Security Space Launch program.
The Space Force awarded United Launch Alliance and SpaceX five-year National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts in 2020 to launch collectively as many as 35 NSSL missions.
Blue Origin lost national security launch awards in 2020 to United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.
The GEM 63XL booster is scheduled to support United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket in the extended-length variation’s first flight later 2022.
Northrop Grumman received a contract worth more than $2,000,000,000 on 2022-06-08 to produce solid rocket boosters for United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur launch vehicles.
United Launch Alliance expects Vulcan Centaur’s first flight to take place in late 2022.
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a multi-year contract valued at more than $2,000,000,000 from United Launch Alliance for increased production of the 63-inch-diameter GEM 63 solid rocket booster and the extended-length GEM 63XL.
Northrop Grumman began developing the GEM strap-on boosters in 2015 under contract to United Launch Alliance.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX won the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 launch services procurement contract in 2020 with ULA awarded 60% and SpaceX awarded 40% of the missions over five years.