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ULA Preparing To Shuffle Launch Manifest Due To MUOS Mission Delay

Pat Host

Wednesday, April 13th, 2016

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ULA Preparing To Shuffle Launch Manifest Due To MUOS Mission Delay

ULA's Atlas V launches March 15, 2016, for an Orbital ATK CRS mission to ISS. Photo: ULA.

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 Defense Daily Wednesday here at the 32nd Space Symposium. While Bruno did not definitively commit to shuffling the company's launch manifest, he said ULA is looking…

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