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The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command selected Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance to participate in technology development projects on 2021-09-24.
United Launch Alliance will receive $24,300,000 for uplink command and control for Centaur 5, the upper stage of ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.
SSC’s Launch Enterprise awarded a FY21 prototype project for Uplink Command and Control for Centaur V to United Launch Alliance for $24,350,000.
The value of the GOES-U contract, $152.5 million, is slightly less than the $165,700,000 award made to United Launch Alliance in December 2019 for the GOES-T launch.
United Launch Alliance has purchased all the RD-180 engines it requires for the Atlas V and has 29 Atlas V vehicles remaining with RD-180s stored in a warehouse in Alabama.
NASA selected SpaceX to launch GOES-U, the last in a series of geostationary weather satellites previously launched by United Launch Alliance.
United Launch Alliance is no longer offering the Atlas V after a final series of contracts that include an April order for nine Atlas V launches by Amazon to launch part of Project Kuiper.
United Launch Alliance built Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral to be used interchangeably for Atlas V and Vulcan launches without major reconfigurations.
United Launch Alliance won 60 percent of the NSSL Phase 2 missions and was assigned four missions to be launched on Vulcan in 2022 and 2023.
One of ULA’s originally assigned Vulcan NSSL missions was switched to Atlas V because Vulcan would not be certified in time to launch in 2022.
Vulcan is slated to replace ULA’s Atlas V rocket because the Department of Defense cannot continue to buy RD-180 engines beyond 2022.
United Launch Alliance plans to get Vulcan certified by 2023 to enable launch of the remaining assigned NSSL missions.
The government contractor that supplies nitrogen for United Launch Alliance's launch facilities at Vandenberg Space Force Base is working on addressing the liquid oxygen shortage in Florida.
The Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle is developed by United Launch Alliance and is powered by Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines.
United Launch Alliance inked a deal with Blue Origin in 2014 to jointly fund the development of a liquid rocket engine.
United Launch Alliance won approximately 60 percent and SpaceX won approximately 40 percent of the estimated 34 missions projected to be flown between 2022 and 2027 under Phase 2.
United Launch Alliance designated Vulcan as its next-generation rocket in 2015 and awarded Blue Origin a contract to supply BE-4 engines in 2018.
The U.S. Air Force selected United Launch Alliance as one of its NSSL Phase 2 providers in August 2020.
United Launch Alliance’s plan is to complete Vulcan’s first two commercial launches in 2022 so the vehicle can be certified to fly its first national security mission in 2023.
United Launch Alliance is working with Aerojet Rocketdyne on a modification to the RL10 upper-stage engine that includes a new 33-inch nozzle extension.