IAF Excellence in Industry Award 2024

United Launch Alliance is a Limited Liability Corporation, incorporated in the US. ULA provides assured access to space and fuels local economies with their nationwide team of approximately 2,700 employees. Leveraging a legacy of 100 percent mission success launching more than 155 missions to explore, protect and enhance our world, ULA is the US’s most experienced and reliable launch service provider with world-leading reliability, schedule confidence, and mission optimization.

On January 8, 2024, United Launch Alliance (ULA) marked the beginning of a new era of space capabilities with the successful inaugural launch of its Vulcan rocket.

Vulcan introduces new innovative capabilities to meet the changing landscape and requirement of space launch, while leveraging the best of more than 120 combined years of launch experience with Atlas and Delta. Vulcan provides the highest-value launch service with optimal performance to meet the full range of customer needs. Vulcan will leverage the world’s highest-performing upper stage to deliver on ULA’s industry-leading legacy of reliability and precision. Centaur V’s matchless flexibility and extreme endurance enables the most complex orbital insertions within the most challenging and clandestine orbits.

Vulcan is uniquely designed to meet all the challenging requirements demanded by an expanding spectrum of missions for U.S. national security space launches. Moreover, the next-generation rocket will provide high performance and affordability while continuing to deliver superior reliability and orbital precision for all of ULA’s customers across the national security, civil and commercial markets. The Vulcan manifest includes 70 missions comprised of a mix of government, national security and commercial missions. Vulcan takes advantage of innovative technologies and streamlined processes to bring new efficiencies, high-tempo operations, and unlimited possibilities to the new space economy.