United Launch Alliance is a US-based launch service provider specializing in providing reliable and cost-effective space launch services for a variety of customers, including government agencies, commercial companies, and international organizations. The company is committed to bringing the latest technology to bear to ensure mission success at the lowest possible cost and has successfully delivered more than 100 satellites to orbit that provide critical capabilities for troops in the field, aid meteorologists in tracking severe weather, enable personal device-based GPS navigation and unlock the mysteries of our solar system.

Missions

Commercial Crew

ULA is bringing human spaceflight back to American soil with the launch of The Boeing Company’s Starliner spacecraft. ULA is proud to be entrusted with such an important mission and to be returning to the Atlas rocket’s human spaceflight heritage dating back more than 50 years.

Launch Services

RapidLaunch

ULA's RapidLaunch offering enables launch in as few as three months from contract signing, the shortest integration in the industry today. By leveraging our unique capabilities in spacecraft integration, mission design, and rocket science, we provide launch campaign timelines optimized to achieve mission and business objectives.

RapidLaunch changes the value proposition for launch. It returns power to the spacecraft operator to define the launch timeline and meet operational needs. Coupled with ULA’s record of reliability and schedule assurance, RapidLaunch creates value unmatched by other launch service providers.

Multi-manifest

Since access to orbit remains a critical hurdle for many missions ULA's rideshare capabilities provide a solution to overcome this barrier. Rideshare on an Atlas V or Vulcan Centaur provides a low-cost, highly reliable, and scheduled certain launch solution for spacecraft ranging from CubeSats to ESPA-class and beyond. ULA's long history of rideshare mission success includes partnerships with NASA, the Air Force, and commercial customers – delivering missions to orbits from LEO to the moon.

Rockets

ULA’s rockets lead the industry in mission and schedule reliability, building on more than six decades of launch heritage.

Vulcan

ULA is transforming the future of space launch, making it more affordable, accessible, and commercialized with its new, next-generation rocket. Vulcan is superior in reliability, cost, weight, and capability, and provides a solution for the nation’s most critical need: reliable access to space. Vulcan will do it all – affordability with higher performance – while continuing to deliver on ULA’s unparalleled reliability and precision.

Atlas V

The Atlas V family represents ULA's commitment to enhanced competitive launch services for the U.S. government. Since their debut in August 2002, Atlas V vehicles have achieved 100 percent mission success over more than 70 launches. Built modularly with flight-proven elements, Atlas V has followed a carefully executed program of incremental improvements resulting in 100 percent mission success. Providing customers with maximum flexibility, capability, and reliability has been the foundation of the Atlas program, which has logged more than 600 launches to date.

Delta IV

The Delta IV family of launch vehicles combines design simplicity, manufacturing efficiency, and streamlined mission and vehicle integration to meet customer requirements to launch high-priority U.S. Air Force, National Reconnaissance Office, NASA, and commercial payloads to orbit.

The Delta IV launch system is available in three configurations: the Delta IV Medium+, with two or four solid rocket motors (SRMs), and the Delta IV Heavy. Each configuration is comprised of a common booster core (CBC), a cryogenic upper stage, and a 5-meter-diameter payload fairing (PLF). The Delta IV Heavy employs two additional CBCs as liquid rocket boosters to augment the first-stage CBC.

For more than a decade, ULA has served as the premier launch provider for U.S. government and commercial customers. Their unrivaled capability and record of mission success have made ULA the launch provider of choice for critical and high-value space assets. We bring unmatched expertise to the challenges of rocket science.

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