United Launch Alliance

A group of recently launched startups are bucking the strategy.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded contracts to Blue Origin and Stoke Space under the Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 effort.

The next 18 months will be busy for United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) newest rocket, and no one is more aware of that fact than Tory Bruno.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The mission, known as Certification-2 (Cert-2), follows Vulcan’s successful debut on the Cert-1 flight in January.

The ULA Vulcan-Centaur rocket being prepared to fly a dual-purpose mission this fall arrived at Cape Canaveral on June 24 ahead of a planned September launch.

The newcomer joins incumbents ULA and SpaceX on the Space Force’s launch vendor list.

Boeing passed up bidding on a planned commercial variant of NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket for the U.S. Space Force’s NSSL Phase 3 program.

It will take some luck for Boeing to be ready to fly its first ISS crew rotation mission as early as February.

The U.S. Space Force has selected Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance (ULA), and SpaceX as the three service providers for Phase 3 of the NSSL program.

ULA has resolved a ground support system problem that scotched a June 1 launch attempt of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket.

A second attempt to launch two astronauts on a shakedown cruise of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft was called off 3 min. 50 sec. before liftoff on June 1.

The issue was found as part of a wider assessment of the Starliner propulsion system.

The company has requested an early September launch for Tenacity aboard ULA’s second Vulcan rocket.

NASA and Boeing are working toward a June 1 launch of the CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test.

The leak initially appeared during the countdown for launch of the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6.

The mission, designated NROL-146, is targeted for launch on May 19 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flying from Vandenberg SFB in California.

The leak was noted during Starliner’s initial launch attempt on May 6.

SpaceX’s plan to launch its Starship-Super Heavy reusable Mars-class space transport from KSC will require a full environmental impact statement, the FAA said.

It’s been a big year for United Launch Alliance, the Lockheed Martin- and Boeing-owned joint venture that has been remaking itself for the commercial space age.

The long-awaited crewed debut of Boeing’s Starliner caps off a 13-year effort to certify multiple commercial providers of low-Earth-orbit astronaut transport.

NASA on May 1 selected nine companies for a dozen concept studies aimed at expanding the exploration of Mars.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The second of two Blue Origin BE-4 engines has arrived at United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Decatur, Alabama, factory for installation on a Vulcan rocket.

What began as an operational ballistic missile evolved into one of the most successful and storied space launch vehicles.