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United Launch Alliance is a U.S. launch-service company and rocket manufacturer formed by Boeing and Lockheed Martin to combine the Delta and Atlas launch-vehicle programs for U.S. government, civil, and commercial space missions.
3 weaponsUnited Launch Alliance links this catalog's space-launch support records to the company that integrates and operates Atlas V, the retired Delta IV family, and the newer Vulcan rocket family. ULA's work is most relevant where military, intelligence, weather, navigation, and civil payloads require orbital launch services rather than battlefield weapon employment.
The company began operations in December 2006 after regulatory approval of a 50-50 Boeing and Lockheed Martin joint venture. ULA says its program-management, engineering, test, and mission-support functions are headquartered in Denver, while manufacturing, assembly, and integration are centered at Decatur, Alabama, and launch operations are conducted from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Vandenberg Space Force Base.
ULA presents Vulcan as its next-generation single-core launch vehicle, using two BE-4 main engines, optional GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters, and a Centaur upper stage for national security, civil, science, cargo, and commercial missions.
Sources: Vulcan Rocket, Vulcan Defense Launch
ULA's Atlas V page describes a modular launch vehicle built around a common core booster, optional solid rocket boosters, a Centaur upper stage, and multiple fairing options for a broad range of mission requirements.
Sources: Atlas V Rocket
The catalog's connected Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) record documents a ULA Delta IV configuration used for national-security, weather, science, and GPS launch missions before the Delta IV Medium line ended in 2019.
Sources: Delta IV RocketBoeing and Lockheed Martin announced an agreement to create United Launch Alliance as a 50-50 joint venture combining Delta and Atlas launch operations for U.S. government missions.
Sources: ULA Joint Venture Announcement
Lockheed Martin's release says ULA officially opened as a joint venture combining the Delta and Atlas rocket programs after U.S. and European regulatory approvals.
Sources: ULA Begins Operations
ULA describes the final Delta mission as the transition point from the Delta family to the new Vulcan rocket for heavy-class national missions.
Sources: Delta IV Rocket
ULA reported that a Vulcan rocket lifted the USSF-87 mission from Space Launch Complex-41 and stated that its national-security launch legacy now continues with Vulcan.
Sources: Vulcan Defense Launch
ULA is represented here as a launch-vehicle manufacturer and launch-services provider. The connected records document orbital launch systems and support relationships, not direct battlefield use.
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Transport, logistics, recovery, command, engineering, and other enabling equipment.
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