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United Launch Alliance received five NSS launch service orders for GPS III-7, USSF-23, USSF-43, WGS-11+, and USSF-16 using the Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle.
United Launch Alliance is establishing a new customer program office to support Amazon’s Project Kuiper.
United Launch Alliance has launched over 145 missions with a 100 percent mission success record.
Col. Douglas Pentecost, Space Systems Command’s deputy director of launch enterprise, identified ULA’s task orders for the five missions as worth $566,000,000 and SpaceX’s orders for the three missions as worth $280,000,000.
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.
The Space Systems Command awarded seven Phase 2 missions between August 2020 and March 2021 with four missions assigned to United Launch Alliance for $561,100,000 and three missions assigned to SpaceX for $475,700,000.
The OFT-2 flight test began Thursday, 2022-05-19 when Starliner launched on the ULA Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Starliner launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 6:36 a.m. on Friday, 2021-12-20 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Nanoracks, Maxar, and United Launch Alliance were among six teams selected by NASA in 2017 to prototype technologies in support of deep space habitats.
Boeing and United Launch Alliance remain committed to launching future CST-100 Starliner commercial crew missions on Atlas 5 rockets even after Atlas 5 is effectively retired for other missions.
United Launch Alliance has launched 150 times with 100 percent mission success to date.
United Launch Alliance’s next launch is the USSF-12 mission for the U.S. Space Force planned for 2022-06-29 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket lifted off on 2022-05-19 at 6:54 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on Orbital Flight Test-2 to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
To date, United Launch Alliance has launched 149 times with 100 percent mission success.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is in final preparations to launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
The CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman (previously Orbital ATK) provided medium- and heavy-class launch services for the US market in 2021.
Boeing moved the Starliner spacecraft from a processing facility at Kennedy Space Center to a United Launch Alliance vehicle processing facility at Space Launch Complex 40 on 2022-05-04.
Under the Phase 2 awards, United Launch Alliance received 60% of the projected national security missions and SpaceX received 40% over the five-year contract.
United Launch Alliance plans to make major investments in its supply chain to support as many as 20 to 25 launches per year of its Vulcan Centaur vehicle.