The rise in commercial demand and the Russian Soyuz rocket’s sudden exit from the global stage have created a ‘perfect storm’ WASHINGTON — United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno is advising the U.S. Space Force to preemptively buy heavy launch services as rockets could be in short supply over the […]
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Bruno: Amazon’s launch contracts will help ensure that the West is never again dependent on Russia for launch services COLORADO SPRINGS – Amazon’s record-breaking deal to purchase up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance is “a big deal” in the context of recent geopolitical developments, […]
“We’re in the end game now,” Tory Bruno said Dec. 3 on CNBC WASHINGTON — Blue Origin is performing “final testing” of the BE-4 engines that will boost United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket, ULA’s CEO Tory Bruno said Dec. 3. “We’re in the end game now,” Bruno told CNBC […]
Bruno: ‘It’s taking us longer to move through this test program. And the same is true on the production part of this’ WASHINGTON — United Launch Alliance underestimated the challenges Blue Origin would face in the development, testing and manufacturing of the BE-4 rocket engine, ULA’s CEO Tory Bruno said […]
ULA is still betting on long-endurance upper stages and believes the technology has a bright future. WASHINGTON — When United Launch Alliance started to develop its new Vulcan rocket, it envisioned using a new upper stage called ACES, short for advanced cryogenic evolved stage. ULA’s president and CEO Tory Bruno […]
ULA has begun testing Vulcan’s core stage at the launch site at Cape Canaveral. WASHINGTON — Millennium Engineering and Integration received a $13.2 million award from the U.S. Space Force on Feb. 19 for services in support of the certification of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. MEI in 2018 won […]
Refresh 2021-02-19T01:11:26.144ZPresident Biden, VP Harris hail Mars landingMembers of NASA’s Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are lauding the successful…
WASHINGTON– While some see a rise of launch lorry growth initiatives as an indicator of an “overheated” market, others see those initiatives as an indicator of changing need. At aFeb 4 webinar, Tory Bruno, president of United Launch Alliance, claimed he was worried that way too much financial investment was […]