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

United Launch Alliance has launched a national security payload into space Thursday as part of the National Reconnaissance Office‘s NROL-61 mission. The Boeing and Lockheed Martin joint venture said Thursday it launched the NROL-61 payload aboard the company-built Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Atlas V EELV 421 configuration was built to […] More

DigitalGlobe has announced plans to launch seven miniaturized satellites onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket as part of the rideshare program for the WorldView-4 mission. Seven National Reconnaissance Office-sponsored CubeSats will fly onboard the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s rocket that is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in mid-September to bring […] More

Atlas North America has received a potential $48.3 million contract to manufacture explosive and inert neutralizer rounds for the U.S. Navy in an effort to help meet the Littoral Combat Ship program requirements. Atlas will work to produce the Seafox shipboard mine neutralizer system and perform engineering services in Germany, Florida and Virginia through April 2017, the […] More

United Launch Alliance has requested an additional supply of Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines for use in the launch of Atlas V rockets to space, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes the Lockheed Martin–Boeing joint venture intends for the 20 Russian engine orders to fulfill customer demands for civil and commercial launch services while ULA’s development of […] More

Orbital ATK has received a contract from United Launch Alliance to produce large composite structures for installation onboard ULA-built Delta IV and Atlas V rockets. Orbital ATK said Thursday its contract with the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture was awarded in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles initiative. “Our support of ULA EELV […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has finished its 100th AJ60 rocket motor for United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V launch vehicle. Aerojet said Monday 87 AJ60 solid rocket boosters have been used in 24 Atlas V missions since it won the contract from the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture in 1999. AJ60 is a 67-foot long wound composite SRB designed to carry over 90,000 […] More

United Launch Alliance has selected Orbital ATK as the sole provider of solid boosters for the Atlas V and Vulcan launch vehicles as part of a long-term strategic partnership between both businesses that takes effect in 2019. Orbital ATK said Tuesday it will design and develop two new motors for the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture to support both government and commercial […] More

Orbital ATK has bought two United Launch Alliance-built rockets to deliver supplies to the International Space Station for NASA in December and in early 2016, Space News reported Tuesday. Dan Leone writes the Atlas V launch system would help Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft deliver approximately 7,716 pounds of pressurized cargo to ISS. ULA, a Boeing–Lockheed Martin […] More

In-Q-Tel has invested an undisclosed amount in Atlas Wearables to help that company further develop a technology for monitoring physical activities. Atlas’ flagship wristband product is designed to employ machine learning and analytics to help athletes and fitness professionals monitor workout routine, heart rate and calories burned, Atlas said Monday. The Austin, Texas-based technology firm […] More

United Launch Alliance has launched the latest global positioning system satellite to join the on-orbit constellation that will provide timing and navigation services for a U.S. Air Force program. The company said Wednesday that an Atlas V 401 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle carried the GPS IIF-8 satellite to space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Jim Sponnick, ULA vice president for the […] More

ATK sought to highlight its engineering services portfolio after the recent launch of an Atlas V rocket that vaulted the Boeing-made GPS IIF-7 satellite to orbit. “The Atlas V and GPS programs encompass the scope and scale of ATK’s highly engineered products and affordable innovation,” Blake Larson, president of ATK’s aerospace group, said Aug. 1. “Both military and civilian GPS […] More