Salvatore Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, said Tuesday in an interview with Government Matters that the company aims to implement analytics and automation for its rocket designs to handle complex missions.
Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has welcomed Blue Origin's move to establish a rocket engine manufacturing facility in Alabama.
Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, told Ars Technica in an interview published Wednesday that the company expects to launch a national security payload aboard the ULA-built Vulcan rocket in 2022. He said ULA plans to perform certification flights in 2021 under the launch services agreement with the U.S. Air Force. “And we intend […] More
United Launch Alliance has chosen Blue Origin to produce a booster engine technology to power a launch vehicle designed for government and commercial satellite missions. The Vulcan Centaur rocket’s first stage, fueled by liquefied natural gas, will use a pair of BE-4 engines from Blue Origin, ULA said Thursday. ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno said the company has worked with the […] More
Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has told a Senate subcommittee that planned exploration missions to Mars demand a “space industrial base of enormous breadth and depth.†Bruno said in a testimony published Wednesday that ULA has formed strategic partnerships with Aerojet Rocketdyne, L3 Technologies, Spincraft and other companies to supply key components for […] More
United Launch Alliance has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to provide an upper stage engine technology to help power ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. The space launch company said Friday Aerojet Rocketdyne will build RL10 propulsion systems and develop an RL10C-X variant as part of a 10-year partnership agreement between the companies. “Key determining factors to our selection included price and […] More
L3 Technologies has agreed to be the exclusive avionics and services provider for United Launch Alliance‘s Vulcan Centaur rocket under a potential 10-year, $1 billion agreement. Both companies plan to combine design and manufacturing processes in an effort to customize technologies intended to help boost ULA’s launch service offerings, L3 said Monday. Vulcan Centaur is designed […] More
United Launch Alliance has signed a cooperative research-and-development agreement with the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center in support of efforts to certify the company’s future Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle for national security space missions. The Air Force said Tuesday the cooperative, jointly-written agreement will stay in effect until all non-recurring design validation activities for the launch vehicle […] More
United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has introduced a competition that seeks to encourage participants to develop a launch support attachment bracket for ULA’s Atlas V rocket. ULA opened the 3-2-1 Liftoff! ULA Rocket Hardware Challenge through GrabCAD‘s digital manufacturing portal for designers and engineers, ULA said Monday. Participants will work to design a new support bracket for ground processing at the base of […] More