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ULA Preparing To Shuffle Launch Manifest Due To MUOS Mission Delay

Monday, April 25th, 2016

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--United Launch Alliance (ULA) is preparing to shuffle its launch manifest in response to indefinitely delaying a Navy mission following a March 22 launch anomaly."I'm still pretty confident we'll get the entire manifest off this year, but we're going to have to shuffle around a bit," ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno told sister publication Defense Daily April 13 at the 32nd Space Symposium.While Bruno did not definitively commit to shuffling the company's launch manifest, he said ULA…

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