United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance is a Launch Vehicles company founded in 2006 and based in Centennial, United States.
United Launch Alliance began operations on Dec. 1, 2006, as a 50/50 joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which announced it on May 2, 2005. It is headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, builds rockets in Decatur, Alabama, and launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, with about 2,700 employees. It earns revenue from launch contracts with the U.S. Space Force, NASA and commercial customers. Vulcan Centaur, which debuted on Jan. 8, 2024, is replacing the Atlas V, and the Delta IV Heavy flew its final mission on April 9, 2024. In April 2025 the Defense Department awarded ULA 19 national security missions worth about $5.3 billion for 2025 to 2034, and Amazon booked 38 Vulcan and nine Atlas V launches in 2022. Mark Peller became president and CEO on Aug. 17, 2026, succeeding interim CEO John Elbon, who had led the company since Tory Bruno resigned on Dec. 22, 2025.
ULA is one of three National Security Space Launch providers, with SpaceX and Blue Origin, so Vulcan's availability shapes when U.S. military satellites reach orbit. After a solid-booster nozzle burn-through on the USSF-87 launch of Feb. 12, 2026, the Space Force paused national security missions on Vulcan, and on Oct. 21, 2026, it said those missions were delayed rather than reassigned. On July 2, 2026, an Atlas V carried 29 Amazon Leo satellites, the eighth Atlas V mission for Amazon, bringing ULA's total for the constellation to 224.
At a glance
Total raised
Undisclosed
Headcount
1k-5k
Headquarters
Centennial
United StatesFounded
2006
Status
Private
Subsector
Space Tech, ranked
Top 25 Space Tech companies →Funding history
Total raised
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Rounds tracked
0
No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.
