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United Launch Alliance is financing factory improvements with funds awarded in October 2018 by the U.S. Air Force under the Launch Service Agreement contract.
Vulcan Centaur is being offered by ULA as a single vehicle to perform missions currently done by Atlas and Delta and to compete for NASA, commercial, and Air Force Phase 2 missions.
United Launch Alliance is building the Vulcan class of space launch vehicles at the factory Boeing opened in Decatur, Alabama in 1998 to make Delta rockets.
The Air Force will not be able to fly satellites on the Russian-engine-powered Atlas beyond 2022, motivating ULA to design Vulcan with a domestically produced engine.
Sierra Nevada Corporation originally planned to use ULA’s Atlas V for at least the initial Dream Chaser mission that was scheduled for late 2020.
Dream Chaser will be the commercial debut payload for ULA’s Vulcan, with the first Dream Chaser mission in late 2021 planned to fly on Vulcan’s second flight.
United Launch Alliance and Sierra Nevada Corporation included an option to shift Dream Chaser launches to Atlas V if Vulcan experiences delays.
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s working relationship with United Launch Alliance dates back to plans under NASA’s commercial crew program to launch a crewed version of Dream Chaser on an Atlas V.
Sierra Nevada Corporation selected United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan launch vehicle to send Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station starting in late 2021.
United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and Blue Origin are developing new rockets and upgrading existing vehicles for the Phase 2 competition.
The Air Force awarded a Launch Service Agreement in 2018 to Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman to help pay for rocket development and infrastructure.
United Launch Alliance launched the AEHF-5 communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center on an Atlas V rocket.
The Air Force’s AEHF-5 communications satellite reached orbit after separating from a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket approximately 5 hours and 40 minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Funds for the three Delta 4 Heavy missions had previously been committed to ULA under an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Phase 1 block buy negotiated in 2013 for 36 cores.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center negotiated with United Launch Alliance savings of approximately $27,500,000 per launch for the three Delta 4 Heavy missions.
The value of ULA’s contract for three Delta 4 Heavy launches represents about half of the total government cost to launch the NRO missions because launches are funded through multiple contracting vehicles.
United Launch Alliance received a $467,500,000 Launch Vehicle Production Services contract covering three Delta 4 Heavy missions for the National Reconnaissance Office.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded United Launch Alliance a $156,700,000 contract modification on 2019-08-07 for a Delta 4 Heavy launch of the National Reconnaissance Office mission NROL-70.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket scheduled to launch a $1,100,000,000 military communications satellite will carry an experimental cubesat as a rideshare payload on the Centaur upper stage.
Tory Bruno, president and chief executive of United Launch Alliance, tweeted on 2019-07-19 linking to ULA’s 2019-07-19 letter and praising the FAA for increasing flexibility while maintaining public safety.