ULA’s Future Rests On Multipurpose Vulcan Booster

ULA’s Vulcan rolling out of Decatur, Alabama, factory

ULA’s first Vulcan rocket, targeted to launch in late March, rolled out of the company’s Decatur, Alabama, factory on Jan. 10 for transport to Cape Canaveral.

Credit: United Launch Alliance
For the last nine years, United Launch Alliance, the Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture formed in 2006 to ensure that the most important U.S. national security and science satellites make it into space, has been quietly remaking itself for a new era. Instead of two independent launch systems...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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