РН Вулкан - Vulcan Centaur heavy-lift launch vehicle (Планов громадье в ULA)

[Salo]

ULA ‏@ulalaunch 16 ч.16 часов назад
The evolution to a self-sustaining space economy. #CisLunar1000
 

[Salo]

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-joint-polar-satellite-system-2-mission

March 3, 2017
CONTRACT RELEASE C06-17
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Joint Polar Satellite System-2 Mission
 
NASA has sel ected United Launch Services LLC (ULS) of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) mission for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Launch is currently targeted for 2021 on an Atlas V 401 rocket fr om Space Launch Complex 3E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The total cost for NASA to launch JPSS-2 is approximately $170.6 million, which includes the launch service and other mission-related costs.
JPSS is a collaborative program between NOAA and NASA. This interagency effort is the latest generation of NOAA polar-orbiting environmental weather satellites. JPSS-2 is one of five satellites that will comprise the JPSS constellation. These spacecraft gather global measurements of atmospheric, terrestrial and oceanic conditions, including sea and land surface temperatures, vegetation, clouds, rainfall, snow and ice cover, fire locations and smoke plumes, atmospheric temperature, water vapor and ozone. JPSS delivers key environmental observations that provide support for the nation's essential products and services. This includes forecasting severe weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes, predicting blizzards days in advance, and assessing other environmental hazards such as droughts, forest fires, poor air quality and harmful ocean conditions, particularly along the coasts. Further, JPSS will provide continuity of critical, global Earth observations — including our atmosphere, oceans and land.
NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will manage the ULS launch service. The JPSS Flight Project office is located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and manages spacecraft development for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in partnership with NOAA in Washington, D.C.
 

For more information about NASA programs and missions, visit: http://www.nasa.gov

[triage]

Твит после прямо речи Бруно (их там было много)

 https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/838100221733322758
4 мар. 2017 г.
ULA's RapidLaunch capability means customers can order a launch in as little as 3 months. @torybruno #AskTory

И еще реклама старого сайта

https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/838099895340920832
4 мар. 2017 г.
ULA also has launched a way for customers to do trades and even order a rocket via http://www.rocketbuilder.com

[tnt22]

http://spacenews360.com/breaking-layoffs-imminent-united-launch-alliance/

BREAKING: Layoffs Imminent At United Launch Alliance

By Scott Murray  -  March 2, 2017

Спойлер

[свернуть]

UPDATE: March 6, 2017

BREAKING: Layoffs Imminent At United Launch Alliance

Mark Dowhan, Vice President of Launch Operations for ULA will be retiring at the end of this month. Mark said he will "play more golf" in his retirement. He has been with the company for almost 17 years following a 21 year career as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. His replacement will be Tony Taliancich, Director East Coast Launch Operations.

 
Tony Taliancich

Tony has been with Lockheed Martin/ULA for 13 years, mostly in launch operations. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he was with the United States Air Force.
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According to a credible inside source, major layoffs are about to occur at United Launch Alliance (ULA). Following the launch March 1st, 2017 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, most if not all of the staff of ULA at VAFB will be laid off over a few months.

Also, according to the inside source a key senior level manager is retiring in March. No replacement is known of at this time, however, two mid-level executives are under consideration. 

The launch from VAFB was a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) mission, NROL-79, stacked on an Atlas V (401) booster.  The launch was a success.

This is big news as ULA still has a launch manifest, following NROL-79, on the west coast at Vandenberg. To process these launches, the inside source said that teams from the east coast will travel to VAFB to process the launch vehicle, payload and control the launch.

The inside source also reported that ULA will be changing its name.

[Чебурашка]

План в кратком изложении..

1. Переименоваться
2 ?? (маску сделать дырку в шар-баллоне, пущай полетает)
3 ......
4 profit

[Salo]

 Tory Bruno‏Подлинная учетная запись @torybruno  5 ч.5 часов назад  
BE4 is the primary path to replace the Atlas' Russian RD180. Looking good

 
 Jeff BezosПодлинная учетная запись @JeffBezos  
Here's one more shot of BE-4 in its transport cradle.

[triage]

ошибся

[tnt22]

An interview with Tory Bruno of ULA - TMRO:Space (1:05:53)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCAUyDNMoyc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCAUyDNMoyc

[tnt22]

ULA запустила online-сервис подбора РН на пуск...

ULA‏Подлинная учетная запись @ulalaunch 7 мин. назад
 
The value of a launch is a lot more than the price tag. Customize your #AtlasV mission at http://www.RocketBuilder.com . @LockheedMartin
 

[Salo]

http://spacenews.com/lockheed-martin-halts-athena-effort-plans-some-atlas-5-overlap-with-vulcan/

Lockheed Martin halts Athena effort, plans some Atlas 5 overlap with Vulcan
by Caleb Henry — March 10, 2017
 
Lockheed Martin has one Athena rocket remaining, but is no longer marketing the rocket. Credit: Lockheed Martin  
 
WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin has ended its effort to return a small-to-medium-lift launch vehicle to market, and plans to keep the Atlas 5 rocket in flight concurrently with United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket for the first five years of operations.
Steve Skladanek, president of Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, said March 8 at the Satellite 2017 conference that finding a meaningful customer base for the company's Athena family of vehicles has again proven too difficult.
"We are no longer actively marketing it," Skladanek said. "If someone is interested in flying with Athena, we still have an asset available, so we could resurrect that system, but right now we are not actively marketing it."
Lockheed Martin has performed only a handful of missions with the Athena family, which the company co-produced with Alliant Techsystems — the latter of which is now part of Orbital ATK — since the mid-1990s. Athena has a performance record of seven flights, of which two failed.
Lockheed Martin took Athena off the market in the late 1990s, shelving the program until 2010. The company was hoping to tap into the growing demand for small-satellite launch services with the two-stage Athena 1c and three-stage Athena 2c, capable of sending 700 kilogram and 1,800 kilogram payloads to low Earth orbit, respectively.
In 2014, Alaska Aerospace Corp. picked Athena as its go-to launcher for small- and medium-lift missions at Kodiak Launch Complex, since rebranded as the Pacific Spaceport Complex. Lockheed Martin was planning an upgraded version of the rocket called Athena 2S, capable of orbiting payloads between 1,900 and 3,000 kilograms.
 
Atlas 5's lengthy shelf life
Skladanek said Lockheed Martin anticipates continuing Atlas 5 launches for some time after ULA begins fielding Vulcan, the company's next-generation launch vehicle currently planned for a maiden flight in 2019. Atlas 5 is Lockheed Martin's principal contribution to the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture, which mainly serves U.S. defense and civil government customers using the Atlas and Delta rocket families. Additionally, Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services carries out Atlas 5 missions for commercial customers.
"We will be flying both vehicles for some period of time until we are absolutely certain that the Vulcan system can maintain the cadence, and the rhythm and reliability that our customers are expecting of us," Skladanek said. "Right now we are anticipating something on the order of a five-year overlap between the two systems."
ULA's first iteration of Vulcan will use a new first stage engine — either two BE-4 engines from Blue Origin or one AR1 engine from Aerojet Rocketdyne — and the Centaur upper stage from Aerojet Rocketdyne currently used in the Atlas 5. In 2023, ULA plans to introduce Vulcan-ACES, which will use the still-in-development Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage (ACES), to fulfill all Atlas 5 and Delta 4 Heavy missions. Keeping Atlas 5 in operation for five years past the debut of Vulcan-Centaur would allow four years of overlap with that rocket and one year of overlap with Vulcan-ACES, if schedules hold.
"At that point we will likely retire the Atlas line," Skladanek said.

[oby1]

Вулкан - это американская Ангара.

[Salo]

2024 - год завершения эксплуатации МКС. Вот тогда CST-100 либо похерят, либо пересадят на Vulcan.

[Искандер]

• Атлас могбы остаться жить и дольше +5лет. Это проверенный носитель, а Аг1 могут обеспечить ему долгую и счастливую жизнь.
  Вопрос в цене и конкурентах.
  

[Salo]

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/03/chute-tests-starliner-asap-worry-rd-180-certification/

Starliner will initially launch with Atlas V, powered by her RD-180 main engine. As such, the certification issue is being worked on by Boeing, which is part of ULA.
"One of the top Boeing risks is the RD-180 engine certification. The engine has a long history, but it has been difficult to get detailed design information for certification," added the ASAP minutes.
"The Boeing team is developing an approach that takes advantage of the long history of successful use, combined with information that they can obtain."

[oby1]

 У  ЛокМарта же вся документация есть, где тут риск?

[silentpom]

надо сертифицировать на хуман-рейтед. были данные, что по родному православному RS-68 который там делают и даже модернизируют (то есть еще понимают как он работает)
It would reportedly require over 200 changes to the RS-68 to meet human-rating standards

[zandr]

https://ria.ru/science/20170316/1490216152.html

Комаров: американские двигатели BE-4 в будущем сменят российские РД-180

© РИА Новости. Юрий Стрелец
МОСКВА, 16 мар — РИА Новости. Разрабатываемые компанией Blue Origin ракетные двигатели BE-4 в перспективе сменят устанавливаемые на американских ракетах-носителях Atlas российские РД-180, поскольку власти США поставили такую задачу частным компаниям, заявил РИА Новости глава "Роскосмоса" Игорь Комаров.
Ранее сообщалось, что Blue Origin создала первый опытный образец нового двигателя BE-4, работающий на сжиженном природном газе и жидком кислороде. Теперь компании предстоит провести длительные наземные огневые испытания, а затем и наработать положительную летную статистику двигателей в составе ракет-носителей.
"Ни для кого не секрет, что в США поставлена задача заместить наши двигатели, может быть, менее надежными и более дорогими, но своими, американскими. На это направлены сейчас усилия. Надо понимать, что когда-нибудь они это сделают", — отметил он.
Отвечая на вопрос, что будет делать подмосковный производитель НПО "Энергомаш" после завершения контракта на поставку РД-180 в США, Комаров сказал: "Все будет нормально. "Энергомаш" будет производить двигатели для других российских проектов или для других стран, или под другие носители в этих странах".
Двигатель РД-180 производства "Энергомаша" устанавливается на всех американских ракетах-носителях типа Atlas. В ноябре 1996 года было проведено первое огневое испытание двигателя-прототипа, а в апреле 1997 года — огневое испытание штатного двигателя. В 1997–1998 годах была успешно проведена серия огневых испытаний двигателя в составе первой ступени ракеты-носителя в США.
Весной 1999 года была завершена сертификация РД-180 для использования в составе ракеты-носителя Atlas-3, первый ее запуск состоялся в мае 2000 года. Летом 2001 года была завершена сертификация РД-180 для использования в составе ракеты-носителя Atlas-5, первый полет состоялся в августе 2002 года.
Ранее глава НПО "Энергомаш" Игорь Арбузов сообщал в интервью РИА Новости, что разрабатываемые частной компанией Blue Origin метановые двигатели BE-4 для новой американской ракеты-носителя Vulcan не смогут в ближайшее время составить конкуренцию российским РД-180.

[Apollo13]

Про более дорогие это зачетный троллинг

[tnt22]

ULA‏Подлинная учетная запись @ulalaunch 20 ч. назад

Join @torybruno and key space enterprise partners for a discussion of a self-sustained space economy #CisLunar1000 http://bit.ly/2mWixBy 

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Alec Hutchinson‏ @BP_Hutch 17 ч. назад

Here's a good @ulalaunch infographic covering their ACES upper stage that will eventually fly on Vulcan. A lot of exciting engineering here!