Enlarge / Artist's rendering of a Vulcan-Centaur rocket launch. (credit: United Launch Alliance) On Friday afternoon, the US Air Force answered one of the big questions that had been hanging over the US launch industry for more than a year—which two companies will be selected to compete for national security launch contracts from 2022 to 2026? During a video call with reporters, William Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, said that United Launch Alliance will receive approximately 60 percent of the launch orders and SpaceX will receive the other 40 percent.
In A Consequential Decision, Air Force Picks Its Rockets For Mid-2020s Launches
Eric Berger, Ars Technica
Fri, 08/07/2020 - 3:46pm
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