ULA Now Planning First Launch of Vulcan in 2021
ULA Now Planning First Launch of Vulcan in 2021
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - United Launch Alliance now wait to launch the first launch of its next generation Vulcan rocket in the spring of 2021, a slip of almost a year that the company says is due to the requirements of a recent Air Force award.
During a panel discussion at the Wernher von Braun Symposium of the American Astronautical Society here on October 24, John Elbon, ULA's director of operations, said the company was making "good progress" on the vehicle, an effort helped by winning one of the three awards of the launch service agreement (LSA) granted by the US Air Force. UU October 10th.
"We are making good progress in the development" of Vulcan, he said. "Our first certification flight is scheduled for April of '21, and we were really excited about the results of the Air Force's LSA acquisition.
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However, as recently as last month, ULA said that the first Vulcan launch was scheduled for 2020, a date on which the company had benefits for some time. In a September 27 statement on its selection of Blue Origin BE-4 engine For the first stage of Vulcan, the company said the vehicle "is on track for its initial flight by mid-2020."
Consulted during a panel at the World Satellite Business Week conference in Paris on September 11 if Vulcano It was still scheduled for its first launch in 2020, Tory Bruno, president and CEO of ULA, offered a one-word answer: "Yes."
In an interview after the panel, Elbon said the change in the first launch until April 2021 is linked to the requirements of the Air Force's LSA award. "As the acquisition program was established, the Air Force program changed and we synchronized with that," he said, adding that the company was moving forward with more aggressive internal programs for the development of Vulcan.
"While ULA was technically programmed to meet the 2020 goal, once we reviewed the Air Force schedule in the LSA proposals and incorporated [additional] "requirements of our plan, we aligned the launch dates of #VulcanCentaur to comply with the Air Force calendar," the company tweeted.
Although ULA was technically programmed to meet the 2020 goal, once we reviewed the Air Force schedule in the LSA proposals and incorporated additional requirements into our plan, we aligned #VulcanCentaur Release dates to comply with the Air Force calendar. https://t.co/sQpJOWUUvg
- ULA (@ulalaunch) October 24, 2018
Although ULA was technically programmed to meet the 2020 goal, once we reviewed the Air Force schedule in the LSA proposals and incorporated additional requirements into our plan, we aligned #VulcanCentaur Release dates to comply with the Air Force calendar.
That initial release in April 2021 will be followed by a second in August 2021, Elbon said. These launches are necessary to obtain Air Force certification for military cargo. "Then we will be ready soon after for national security missions," he said.
ULA is not alone in sliding schedules for launch vehicles. Blue Origin had previously planned to present its New Glenn orbital vehicle in 2020, but company executives have said in recent weeks that the vehicle, which, like Vulcan, uses the BE-4 engine in its first stage, is likely to enter in service in 2021..
"We are moving at a very fast rate to be able to reach a launch in 2021," said Clay Mowry, vice president of sales, marketing and customer experience at Blue Origin, during a speech at the Washington Space Business Roundtable. October 19. "We were really hoping to make that happen until 2020, but right now we're thinking that 2021 will be the first time we fly."
Northrop Grumman, who, like Blue Origin and ULA received an LSA award this month, has remained in the first launch in 2021 for his OmegA vehicle. "The vehicle is well developed," said John Steinmeyer, business director of space launch business at Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (formerly Orbital ATK), during the von Braun Symposium panel. The company is scheduled for a static fire test of rocket segments that will be used by OmegA in the second quarter of 2019, he said, "and initial launch capability in 2021."
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SpaceX did not receive an LSA award, much to the surprise of many in the industry. The company has not disclosed details of its proposal, nor has it confirmed that it has bid in the competition, although industry sources believe that the company did compete.
Lars Hoffman, senior director of government sales at SpaceX, refused to go directly to the LSA competition when asked about this during the panel, emphasizing instead the company's business launches for the Air Force, as well as an agreement Previous with the Air Force to help Development of the SpaceX Raptor engine fund, which the company plans to use in its Big Falcon Rocket vehicle.
"We are diversified into multiple markets," he said, including commercial, civil and national security. "We hope that the partnership with the Air Force will continue in the future."
Caleb Henry contributed to this article from Washington.
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to cover all aspects of the space industry.
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