ULA Atlas V rocket prepared for SES-20/21 satellite launch (picture courtesy of ULA)

ULA Atlas V rocket prepared for SES-20/21 satellite launch.

The ULA Atlas V rocket is prepared for the SES-20/21 satellite launch scheduled in Q4 2022.

Launch Company United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. ULA was founded in December 2006 by combining the teams at these companies that provided spacecraft launch services to the government of the United States. U.S. government launch customers included the Department of Defense and NASA, as well as other organizations. With ULA, Lockheed and Boeing held a monopoly on military launches for more than a decade, until the US Air Force awarded a GPS satellite contract to SpaceX in 2016.