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...ULA is working on just such a development for Vulcan but it is several years away from deployment, the company’s executives said in a pre-launch briefing on Friday....
...ULA plans to use Blue Origin’s engines in its new Vulcan rocket, the development of which was expected to bolster the companies in their rivalry with SpaceX....
...That includes OneWeb, which used Arianespace to launch most of its satellites, and Amazon, which bought rides on Arianespace, Blue Origin and ULA for its rival constellation, Project Kuiper....
...Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte is a Lithuanian artist who lives and works in Glasgow....
...Amazon had previously commissioned nine launches using ULA’s Atlas rocket....
...The agreements with Arianespace, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin will be sufficient to launch the majority of its initial constellation of 3,236 satellites, Amazon said....
...Gudang Ada, Ula, and BukuWarung — three start-ups that aim to bring warungs online — raised nearly $300mn between them in 2021....
...Garden designer Ula Maria, who grew up surrounded by wildflower meadows in her native Lithuania, says her clients increasingly request areas designated for wildlife – even, as in one of her recent projects...
...After Irvine alerted the local authority, the dig was handed over to Ulas, the commercial archaeology unit of the University of Leicester, which previously handled the disinterment of King Richard III’s...
...“Before SpaceX we only really had the ULA, so we’re in a better position than we were,” says Phil McAlister, director of Nasa’s commercial space flight division....
...“We have not witnessed any specific slow down since [the death of Khashoggi],” said Amr Madani, chief executive officer of the Royal Commission of al-Ula....
...Last month officials announced a collaboration with upmarket hotel group Aman, which will develop three resorts in the Al-Ula region, home to archeological attractions including Mada’in Saleh, often dubbed...
...ULA planned to use parachutes to return the engines of its forthcoming Vulcan rockets back to earth, helping it recoup equipment that accounts for about two-thirds of the cost of the main rocket booster,...
...The switch to Vulcan will “raise the level of scrutiny” that ULA faces, says Mr Peluso....
...While ULA charges the US government an average $164m per satellite launch, compared to the $100m or less that SpaceX charges, ULA has not suffered a complete mission failure in more than 100 launches since...
...He also enthuses about the landscape surrounding the site, and Al Ula to the south....
...He expressed concern, however, about how ULA would cope after 2020, when SpaceX is expected to undercut it in many bidding competitions....
...SpaceX has won the only bidding competition held since then, after a contest in which ULA opted not to take part....
...However, ULA insisted that Blue Origin retained the lead. “Blue Origin remains 16 months ahead of Aerojet Rocketdyne in delivering a flight engine to ULA,” the rocket builder said....
...Last year it also won the right to compete for the most sensitive US national security launches, on which ULA had previously held a monopoly....
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...ULA has to grapple with the confused state of efforts to replace the Russian-made RD180, which first Lockheed Martin and then ULA have been buying ever since the end of the cold war....
...The air force in May made SpaceX only the second company — after ULA — cleared to carry US spy and other national security satellites....
...ULA, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, has held a monopoly on the work since its formation in 2006. The US government hopes competition from SpaceX will help to drive down ULA’s prices....
...“It triples or quadruples the company’s addressable market and makes it an equal competitor with ULA,” Mr Thompson said. ULA said it welcomed the air force’s decision....
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