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Delta 2 Added Back to NASA Stable of Rockets
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has gotten its Delta 2 medium-lift rocket back on NASA’s list of approved launch vehicles and, according to a senior executive with the Denver-based company, hopes to capture business from the agency’s Earth sciences division.
Pentagon Rejects Boeing-ULA Bid To Recover Delta 4 Costs
PARIS — The U.S. Defense Department’s contract-oversight agency has rejected a United Launch Alliance (ULA) request for recovery of $271 million in costs related to the Delta rocket program, a decision that both ULA and one of its two owners, Boeing Co., are fighting, Boeing said July 27.
NASA Moves To Add Delta 2 Rocket Back to List of Available Launchers
WASHINGTON — NASA and Denver-based United Launch Alliance (ULA) are negotiating to add the Delta 2 medium-class rocket to the agency’s list of available launch vehicles capable of lofting small- to intermediate-sized science payloads to orbit.
Boeing, ULA Wrangle with Air Force Over Delta 4 Launch Contract Prices
PARIS — Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture in which Boeing owns 50 percent, have filed a second complaint to a U.S. government contract-appeals body to get the U.S. Air Force to reprice three Delta 4 rocket launch contracts that expose the hazards of Air Force contracting practices, industry officials said.
Pratt & Whitney To Convert Delta 4 Upper-stage Engines for Atlas 5
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — With a large inventory of upper-stage engines for the Delta 4 rocket on hand, propulsion provider Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne plans to convert some of that hardware for use aboard the Atlas 5 vehicle, company officials said.
New U.S. Spy Satellite Launched Atop Delta 4
A new U.S. spy satellite launched March 11 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Station aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket. Liftoff occurred about 6:38 p.m. EST. High-altitude winds above the Cape’s Launch Complex 37 delayed the satellite’s launch by nearly a half-hour, but cleared in time for a twilight blastoff.
New Delta 4 Engine Clears Series of Hot-fire Tests
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests of its new RS-68A engine that will eventually power the United Launch Alliance-built Delta 4 launch vehicles, according to a Nov. 22 Pratt & Whitney press release.
Delta 4 Heavy Rocket Launches Huge U.S. Spy Satellite
NEW YORK — A huge unmanned rocket carrying a U.S. spy satellite roared into space Nov. 21 to deliver into orbit what a top U.S. intelligence official has publicly touted as “the largest satellite in the world.”
Lockheed Reserved Delta 4 for 2013 Orion Flight
WASHINGTON -- Lockheed Martin Space Systems is negotiating with United Launch Alliance (ULA) to buy a Delta 4 Heavy launch for an unmanned test flight of the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle in 2013 even though NASA has not committed to funding the demonstration.
GAO: NASA Science Missions Face Delays as Delta 2 Rocket Sunsets
SAN FRANCISCO — NASA science missions face potential delays in the years ahead as the space agency makes the transition from its workhorse Delta 2 medium-class launch vehicle to new rockets, according to a recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
NASA Science Missions Face Delays as Delta 2 Sunsets
SAN FRANCISCO — NASA science missions face potential delays in the years ahead as the space agency makes the transition from its workhorse Delta 2 medium-class launch vehicle to new rockets, according to a recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Delta 2 Lofts Italy’s Final Cosmo-SkyMed Satellite
A Delta 2 rocket flying what could be the venerable U.S. launcher’s final commercial mission successfully delivered the last of Italy’s four Cosmo-SkyMed remote sensing satellites into low Earth orbit Nov. 5.
