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The Air Force projects that the two providers picked for LSA phase 2 could win 20 to 25 commercial launches between them over a five-year period.
The Air Force planned to inject an additional $2,300,000,000 into domestic launch vehicle development over the next few years through the LSA program.
The Air Force intends to award phase 2 launch contracts to only two providers and split awards 60/40 between those two providers for missions flown between 2022 and 2025.
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.
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.
Falcon Heavy debuted in February and was awarded a $130,000,000 Air Force contract in June.
When the EELV program began in 1995, the Air Force provided $500,000,000 each to McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed Martin to subsidize development of new rockets.
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.
The Air Force planned to select three companies to split more than $2,000,000,000 in Launch Service Agreement funding to develop rockets suitable for national security payloads.
United Launch Alliance president and CEO Tory Bruno said the company had already used a share of the 18 RD-180 engines for Air Force launches and retained some for potential orders before the 2022 deadline.
SpaceX received Air Force funding in 2016 to continue development of the Raptor reusable methane-fueled engine intended to replace upper-stage Merlin engines.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson proposed on 2018-09-14 a Space Force cost estimate of about $13,000,000,000 over five years to form a new military branch and a unified combatant command.
The U.S. Air Force will not be able to order any more Atlas V launches after 2022-12-31.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket configured with five strap-on solid rocket boosters launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:15 a.m. EST on a Wednesday.
The U.S. Air Force awarded contracts to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance to further develop their launch vehicles so they can meet national security requirements that include flying to nine different orbits.
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX will compete one mission at a time under EELV phase 1(a) procurements until the Air Force starts buying launch services from new competitors.
The U.S. Air Force selected the Atlas V 551 configuration with five strap-on solid boosters for enhanced geostationary transfer orbit placement.
Support provided at the Halifax facility will include software upgrades, crypto modernization initiatives, and retrofitting MIDS-LVT Block Upgrade 2 devices for Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force platforms.
The Atlas V mission delivered the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-4) Air Force communications satellite to a customized geostationary transfer orbit.
A Delta 2 variant launched five Iridium communications satellites into low Earth orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on 1997-05-05.