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United Launch Alliance (ULA)

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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.

Mentioned as: United Launch Alliance (ULA)Narrative GeneralOct 22, 2020Space Force official: Launch scrubs are no reason to despair

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.

Mentioned as: United Launch AllianceTechnical ProductOct 22, 2020Space Force official: Launch scrubs are no reason to despair

Blue Origin opened a factory in February in Huntsville, Alabama to produce engines for New Glenn and for United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.

Mentioned as: United Launch AllianceTechnical ProductOct 19, 2020Blue Origin trying to convince the Air Force to continue to invest in New Glenn

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.

Mentioned as: United Launch Alliance (ULA)Narrative FinancialOct 17, 2020NASA awards contracts for lunar technologies and ice prospecting payload

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.

Mentioned as: united launch allianceTechnical ProductOct 17, 2020NASA awards contracts for lunar technologies and ice prospecting payload

United Launch Alliance has not committed to developing a heavier rocket for deep space exploration.

Mentioned as: United Launch Alliance (ULA)Narrative GeneralOct 13, 2020ULA’s Tory Bruno argues for U.S. investments in the production of fuel in space

United Launch Alliance proposed establishing a strategic propellant reserve for cislunar space modeled after the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Mentioned as: United Launch AllianceTechnical ProductOct 13, 2020ULA’s Tory Bruno argues for U.S. investments in the production of fuel in space

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.

Mentioned as: United Launch Alliance (ULA)Narrative FinancialOct 13, 2020ULA’s Tory Bruno argues for U.S. investments in the production of fuel in space

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.

Mentioned as: United Launch Alliance (ULA)Org RelationshipOct 3, 2020California judge ends SpaceX’s lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force

On 2020-08-07, the U.S. Air Force selected United Launch Alliance and SpaceX as the winners of the launch service procurement competition.

Mentioned as: United Launch Alliance (ULA)Narrative GeneralOct 3, 2020California judge ends SpaceX’s lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force

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.

Mentioned as: United Launch AllianceOrg RelationshipOct 3, 2020California judge ends SpaceX’s lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force

USSF-106 was awarded to United Launch Alliance under the National Security Space Launch program.

Mentioned as: United Launch AllianceOrg RelationshipSep 15, 2020Air Force Research Laboratory’s NTS-3 satellite to launch on ULA’s Vulcan

United Launch Alliance is also preparing a Delta IV Heavy to launch the NROL-44 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Mentioned as: United Launch AllianceTechnical ProductSep 11, 2020Atlas 5 to fly Northrop Grumman’s solid boosters in upcoming launch of NRO satellite

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.

Mentioned as: United Launch Alliance (ULA)Org RelationshipSep 11, 2020Atlas 5 to fly Northrop Grumman’s solid boosters in upcoming launch of NRO satellite

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.

Mentioned as: United Launch AllianceOrg RelationshipSep 8, 2020Space Force: Too early to say if military will need ‘super heavy’ launch vehicles

The U.S. Air Force awarded National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance rather than to Northrop Grumman.

Mentioned as: United Launch AllianceOrg RelationshipSep 2, 2020NASA and Northrop Grumman test SLS booster

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.

Mentioned as: United Launch Alliance (ULA)Narrative GeneralAug 30, 2020SpaceX launches Argentine radar satellite, rideshare smallsats on Falcon 9 rocket

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.

Mentioned as: United Launch Alliance (ULA)Org RelationshipAug 30, 2020SpaceX launches Argentine radar satellite, rideshare smallsats on Falcon 9 rocket

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.

Mentioned as: United Launch AllianceTechnical ProductAug 29, 2020ULA launch of NRO satellite on hold after Delta 4 Heavy hot fire abort

Astrobotic selected United Launch Alliance to launch its Peregrine lunar lander on the first flight of ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2021.

Mentioned as: United Launch Alliance (ULA)Narrative GeneralAug 27, 2020SpaceX to launch Masten lunar lander
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