{"id":21696,"date":"2024-05-15T21:25:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-is-building-a-new-ship-to-help-increase-vulcan-launch-cadence\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T21:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:25:21","slug":"ula-is-building-a-new-ship-to-help-increase-vulcan-launch-cadence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-is-building-a-new-ship-to-help-increase-vulcan-launch-cadence\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA is building a new ship to help increase Vulcan launch cadence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/ULA-SPACESHIP-RENDER-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/ULA-SPACESHIP-RENDER-1.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/ULA-SPACESHIP-RENDER-1.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/ULA-SPACESHIP-RENDER-1.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/ULA-SPACESHIP-RENDER-1.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"40629\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2024\/05\/14\/ula-is-building-a-new-ship-to-help-increase-vulcan-launch-cadence\/ula-spaceship-render-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/ULA-SPACESHIP-RENDER-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"ULA SPACESHIP RENDER-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image: ULA<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/ULA-SPACESHIP-RENDER-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: ULA\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ULA announced last week that it will be building a second cargo ship capable of transporting its Vulcan rocket hardware from its factory in Decatur, Alabama and its launch sites on both the East and West Coasts. The press release also emphasizes the importance Amazon\u2018s Kuiper satellite constellation plays in Vulcan\u2019s launch services.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-40626\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to help increase its launch cadence with the company\u2019s new Vulcan rocket, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will be building a second \u201cRoll-on\/Roll-off\u201d class ship for transporting rocket parts to its launch sites. The company has used a very similar ship, called RocketShip, to do that for its Atlas V and Delta IV components for years. It also moved the first Vulcan rocket on its journey to Florida before launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ULA will partner with Bollinger Shipyards in Louisiana and Bristol Harbor Group in Rhode Island to design and build the ship. However, renders make it to look like a copy of RocketShip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike SpaceX, who uses roads, ULA has used the water to transport its rockets thanks to the factory\u2019s placement on the Tennessee River, which connects up with the Mississippi which then flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Once in the gulf, ULA\u2019s ship could then swing around Florida to Port Canaveral or go through the Panama Canal on its way to California.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-40626',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The genius part of RocketShip\u2019s design, and most likely also SpaceShip\u2019s, is it can operate smoothly both on the open sea and in shallow rivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The purpose for a second ship, which ULA hasn\u2019t needed until now, is the hope to speedup its launch cadence of Vulcan. That increased cadence will be important for ULA\u2019s largest customer, Amazon, to deploy its Kuiper satellite constellation quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOver the next year, ULA will be doubling its launch rate capacity in support of our Amazon customer and to ensure timely deliveries of the rockets to the launch site, we needed to build a second ship to support our transportation needs,\u201d said Chris Ellerhorst, ULA\u2019s vice president of the Kuiper Program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ULA seems to be relying hard on Amazon to come through as its anchor customer for its new Vulcan rocket. With signs of a third provider of the Space Force\u2019s large National Security Space Launch contract, gaining and keeping commercial customers will be key to ULA\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, rumors still linger about ULA\u2019s acquisition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}