Tag: United Launch Alliance
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Amazon picks Colorado company’s Vulcan rocket to carry broadband-enabling satellites
Centennial-based United Launch Alliance inked a contract with Amazon to carry thousands of the online retailer’s satellites to Earth’s lower orbit for its Project Kuiper mission to increase global broadband access, officials announced Tuesday. Amazon will use ULA’s new Vulcan rocket for 38 launches in coming years, helping to create a “constellation” of 3,236 advanced…
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Year in review: Economic recovery top business story of 2021
The biggest story in business in 2021 continued to be Colorado’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. While state unemployment levels stood at 6.6% in January, they continued to slide throughout the year and finished at 5.1% in November, the latest figures available. While that’s getting closer to the 4.7% level in March 2020 as…
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United Launch Alliance’s Bruno has confidence in new engines for new rocket
Centennial-based United Launch Alliance’s CEO Tory Bruno told the crowd at Space Symposium on Wednesday the company has full confidence in the new engines being developed by Blue Origin for its next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket. The speech came on the heels of a meeting between the companies’ officials and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall after…