#ULA anticipates a robust schedule, aiming for about two launches per month across its #Atlas and #Vulcan fleets in 2025 and 2026 https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/08/ula-bruno-vulcan-and-beyond/

#ULA #Atlas #Kuiper launch Mon Jun 23, 2025 14:56 UTC https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6771

#ULA's Tory Bruno : "Possible issue with a GN2 purge line that cannot be resolved inside the count. We will need to stand down for today. We’ll sort it and be back."

At the end of March, #Starlink consisted of more than 7100 satellites . Over five million people worldwide use the system. #Amazon launched two test satellites into space in 2023. The plan was to launch the first regular satellites into space in the first half of 2024. #ULA is set to complete up to five more #satellite transports for the company this year https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launches-first-Kuiper-satellites-into-space-10366771.html

#Amazon said it had established communications with all of the satellites, and the sequence of turning them on was “proceeding as planned.” The #FCC’s approval of the constellation came with a requirement that at least half the #satellites needed to be deployed by July 30, 2026. Industry analysts say the company could get an extension if it has demonstrated substantial progress by then https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/science/amazon-kuiper-launch-ula.html

Launch prices for #NASA missions soared after the late 2000s, following the creation of #ULA through a merger of the #Atlas and #Delta rocket programs developed by #LockheedMartin and #Boeing. The merger eliminated #competition for most of NASA's launch contracts until #SpaceX's #Falcon9 became available https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/reusable-rockets-are-here-so-why-is-nasa-paying-more-to-launch-stuff-to-space

#ULA #Kuiper launch rescheduled to Tue Apr 29, 2025 01:00 CEST https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6772

#ULA : "Weather is observed and forecast NO GO for liftoff within the remaining launch window at Cape Canaveral". No new date has been scheduled https://www.cnet.com/science/space/amazon-scrubs-wednesday-rocket-launch-for-its-starlink-satellite-service-rival

#Amazon is under time pressure . The license issued by the US regulatory authorities for the operation of #satellite internet in 2020 requires half of the satellite network to be completed by July 2026. The rest must be in orbit by July 2029 . More than 30 additional launches are planned with other companies, such as #Arianespace and #BlueOrigin. Even the competitor #SpaceX is helping out https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-launches-the-first-internet-satellites-for-Project-Kuiper-next-week-10338214.html

The loss of a solid rocket motor nozzle on the second flight of #ULA’s #Vulcan Centaur last October was caused by a manufacturing defect that has been corrected. The #AirForce had concluded ULA “has performed unsatisfactorily”. That report also said the Air Force was assessing if it was feasible to reassign launches awarded to ULA to an “alternate provider,” which would be #SpaceX. https://spacenews.com/manufacturing-defect-blamed-for-vulcan-solid-rocket-motor-anomaly