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ULA Foresees Significant Ramp Up of Vulcan Launches in Next Two Years

ULA Foresees Significant Ramp Up of Vulcan Launches in Next Two Years
Pictured is a United Launch Alliance (ULA) photo of the Vulcan rocket rolling from the Government Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. For the East Coast, ULA CEO Tory Bruno says that ULA is adding a second Vertical Integration Facility and a second Vulcan mobile launch platform.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is to ramp up Vulcan rocket launches significantly in the next two years to a possible annual number of more than 30 by 2027--60 percent for commercial and 40 percent for the Defense Department and the intelligence community. ULA is a Boeing [BA]-Lockheed Martin [LMT] partnership. The last national security-related launch of a ULA Atlas V was the USSF-151 mission for the U.S. Space Force in July last year (Defense Daily, July 30, 2024). Vulcan is…

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