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United Launch Alliance is testing the swing arm retraction system and has not announced a new launch date for NROL-44.
United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy attempted in August and September to launch the National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-44 satellite but ground equipment problems caused scrubs.
Blue Origin opened a factory in February in Huntsville, Alabama to produce engines for New Glenn and for United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.
Of the $372,200,000 in Tipping Point funding, $256,100,000 will go to four companies—Eta Space, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance—to demonstrate cryogenic fluid management technologies.
United Launch Alliance received an $86,200,000 award to demonstrate a smart propulsion cryogenic system using the Centaur upper stage of its Vulcan rocket, including tank-to-tank propellant transfer and multi-week cryogenic storage.
United Launch Alliance has not committed to developing a heavier rocket for deep space exploration.
United Launch Alliance proposed establishing a strategic propellant reserve for cislunar space modeled after the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
United Launch Alliance’s economic models project that a government investment of about $20,000,000,000 in infrastructure could energize space activity to about $3,000,000,000,000 by 2050.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Launch Service Agreement contracts to Blue Origin for $500 million, to United Launch Alliance for $967 million, and to Northrop Grumman for $762,000,000 to help the companies defray the costs of developing new rockets and infrastructure while competing for a launch service procurement contract.
On 2020-08-07, the U.S. Air Force selected United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as the winners of the launch service procurement competition.
SpaceX challenged the U.S. Air Force over contracts the Air Force awarded in October 2018 to United Launch Alliance, Northrop Grumman, and Blue Origin.
USSF-106 was awarded to United Launch Alliance under the National Security Space Launch program.
United Launch Alliance is also preparing a Delta IV Heavy to launch the NROL-44 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.
United Launch Alliance began assembling an Atlas V rocket on 2020-09-11 that will launch a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite before the end of the year.
The Space and Missile Systems Center is scheduled to work with United Launch Alliance and SpaceX in Phase 2 of the National Security Space Launch program.
The U.S. Air Force awarded National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance rather than to Northrop Grumman.
SpaceX waited to launch Saocom-1B until after ULA’s Delta IV Heavy NROL-44 launch window but launched first when the ULA mission was delayed.
United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy NROL-44 mission from Cape Canaveral experienced an abort three seconds before liftoff on 2020-08-29 that delayed that mission by a minimum of seven days.
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office classified spy satellite for mission NROL-44 aborted during the ignition sequence on 2020-08-29.
Astrobotic selected United Launch Alliance to launch its Peregrine lunar lander on the first flight of ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2021.