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News and discussion about United Launch Alliance
Date, Time (UTC) | Payload | Vehicle |
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2024-06-05, 14:52 | Boe-CFT | Atlas V N22 |
2024-06 | USSF-51 | Atlas V |
2025 | ViaSat-3 EMEA | Atlas V 551 |
Updated 1 Jun. More details here.
ULA and Tory Bruno on Twitter
Tory Bruno's AMAs:
Dr. George Sowers' April 15, 2015 AMA
Many more here.
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This, "idea" came up when i thought of falcon heavy getting almost every military and defense by the U.S. space force and i thought of blue origin and tory bruno, looking at the be-4 and AR-1 thinking of the E-2 ORSC "mini engine" and thinking of at. least 20 to 30 years in the future not to offend anyone but i don't believe blue origin will get the bucks and revenue, cause i remember a pie chart in 2021 i made of how much spaceX took over and compared to now X took over by 30 percent more, soon 40 percent "ouch" so i was thinking of blue origin will, the plans advance to [ULA]taking the higher power SpaceX Raptor 3 and X engines would it be feasible, that any of these engines or a new atlas comeback, something in between or like another engine from blue origin or some other company.? But i really wanna know what's maybe in the tank for the future will be-4 get an upgrade or will SpaceX take over and win the new race to space. FUEL FOR THOUGHT
Dream chaser arrived late last month I believe, could cert2 launch in July?
It appears that the historic papers and presentations ULA has been hosting have started to disappear. Under the main menu there is no listing for papers and presentations any more there does appear to be a link under "Explore" but it results in a 404. A google search results in a listing under "Archive" but a number of papers are missing including all under "human rating", "rideshare", "supporting technologies", and "upper stages". Does anyone know what may be happening with the papers and presentations? Back in 2018 a similar situation occurred with a number of "papers and Presentations" being removed and never republished. I hope this is just an oversight as one of the things I have always appreciated is ULA making these great resources available.
I have an electrical engineering degree and just get rejected for every position
In 2021 ULA announced they would stop receiving new RD-180 engines from Russia and the Atlas V would end when the current stockpile of engines was used up. There have been 12 launches since then and another 17 are projected, so they had around 30 engines in their warehouse at the time.
But I also found a quote from the same time saying they had received a total of 122 engines from Energomash over two decades. So that means their stockpile is a full quarter of all the engines ever received.
Did they consistently order/receive engines faster than they used them or did they deliberately order more to build up a backlog in anticipation of some incident that could cut off supply? Perhaps after the invasion of Crimea was a red flag to ULA to start stockpiling engines?