ULA cuts 2025 manifest to 9 launches, will ramp to 20-25/year starting 2026; not good news for Amazon Kuiper

by Peter B. de Selding

TUPPER LAKE, NY — United Launch Alliance (ULA) expects to conduct just nine missions this year as it confronts the delays associated with the October 2024 loss of the nozzle on a solid-rocket booster (SRB) and other issues that have slowed its schedule, ULA Chief Executive Tory Bruno said.

In an Aug. 7 press briefing, Bruno said ULA’s work at the Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral launch sites will permit ULA to end the year with a cadence of two launches per month, a cadence it expects . . .

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