Launch providers and vehicles

United Launch Alliance

The Boeing and Lockheed Martin joint venture flying Atlas V and Vulcan from the Cape, holding National Security Space Launch awards and carrying Amazon Leo satellites [WULA][SFNNSSL][AMZLEO].

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Entity type: company
Kind: company
Lane: Launch providers and vehicles
Place: Cape Canaveral, Brevard County
Hub region: Space Coast
Founding year: 2006
Florida space year and timeline placement: 2006 · 2006: founding or first operating year of the Florida entity
Role: launch provider
Cutoff status: Operating
Status as of the cutoff: Operating. Atlas V and Vulcan from Space Launch Complex 41.
Entity status: operating
Project status: not applicable
Evidence class: publicly verified operating
Confidence: High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
Degree: 7
Betweenness: 0.1353 on the full graph · 0.0087 on the industrial relations subgraph
Sources: [ULAATLAS] [ULAVUL] [WULA] [SFNNSSL] [AMZLEO] [ALCOMULA]

Connections

Ownership and corporate lineage

co owner of ←
Boeinghalf owner of the joint venture [WULA]
2006 onward
co owner of ←
Lockheed Martinhalf owner of the joint venture [ULAATLAS] [WULA]
2006 onward

Property, facility and development

operates complex →
Space Launch Complex 41United Launch Alliance operates the Cape complex for Atlas V and Vulcan [ULAVUL] [WSLC41]
2002 onward

Industrial production and service

awards contract to ←
United States Space ForceNational Security Space Launch award [SFNNSSL]
2025
clears range for ←
Space Launch Delta 45the range clears and safeguards the provider's launches [USSF45] [ULAATLAS]
2006 onward
manufactures →
Vulcan Centaurthe joint venture builds and flies the vehicle [ULAVUL] [AMZLEO]
2024 onward
manufactures →
Atlas Vthe joint venture builds the vehicle at its Decatur, Alabama factory and flies it from the Cape [ALCOMULA]
2002 onward