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Blue Origin announced plans in June 2017 to build a BE-4 engine factory in Huntsville contingent on United Launch Alliance selecting the engine for its Vulcan rocket.
The first Dream Chaser launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V is planned for no earlier than late 2020, contingent on vehicle development and ISS cargo needs.
Lockheed Martin and Boeing merged their launch businesses and created United Launch Alliance (ULA) in 2006, which then owned the U.S. military launch market exclusively until SpaceX sued the government in 2014 to be allowed to compete.
United Launch Alliance had 41 different configurations among the Atlas V, Delta IV, and the now-retired Delta II as recently as two years before 2019-11-28.
United Launch Alliance is developing the Vulcan Centaur with a first launch scheduled in 2021.
United Launch Alliance reduced its vehicle configurations from 41 to 18 by 2019-11-28.
The AEHF-4 satellite launched on 2018-10-17 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Prior to Falcon 9 receiving Category 3 certification, United Launch Alliance was the only provider offering Category 3 vehicles for NASA missions other than Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL.
Team Indus’ Z-02 lander is being designed to be compatible with launch vehicles operated by Arianespace, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance.
United Launch Alliance selected Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine for Vulcan’s first stage in a 2018-09-27 release.
Two Vulcan launches in 2021 are needed for United Launch Alliance to obtain Air Force certification for military payloads.
United Launch Alliance won one of three Launch Service Agreement awards from the U.S. Air Force on 2018-10-10.
United Launch Alliance expects to perform the first launch of its next-generation Vulcan rocket in April 2021.
The United Launch Alliance joint venture began operating as a monopoly in 2006 after Boeing’s Delta and Lockheed’s Atlas merged their government launch operations.
The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act set a 2022-12-31 end date for awarding national security launch contracts to ULA for RD-180-powered Atlas 5 launches.
In 2016 the Air Force awarded roughly $1,000,000,000 in Other Transaction Authority research-and-development contracts to ULA, SpaceX, Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), and Aerojet Rocketdyne.
Congress amended the language in 2016 to avoid prematurely sidelining ULA’s Atlas 5, which uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine for its main stage.
The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act limited the number of additional RD-180 engines ULA could order on the Air Force’s behalf to 18.
United Launch Alliance expects the Vulcan Centaur first launch no sooner than mid-2020.
On 2018-10-10, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center allocated up to $967,000,000 to ULA to develop the Vulcan Centaur rocket.