United Launch Alliance IAM Employees Approve New Contract
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (United Launch Alliance PR) — Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have accepted the company’s new three-year contract offer. This concludes the 2022 contract negotiation process that began several weeks ago.
The new contract covers more than 600 bargaining unit employees from District Lodges #75 and #166, which includes Locals #44, #610 and #2786 performing work on the Atlas V, Delta IV and Vulcan Centaur product lines at both East and West Coast ULA launch sites and the Decatur, Alabama, manufacturing facility. The contract became effective at 12:01 a.m. on May 2. Negotiations on the new contract officially started April 11 and ended April 21, and the May 1 ratification vote was held in all geographical locations covered by this contract.
“We are pleased that the IAM represented employees have ratified this agreement that is so critical to continuing ULA’s success,” said Tory Bruno, ULA president and CEO. “The represented employees’ contributions have propelled ULA forward in delivering critical capabilities for our nation and our customers. The future is bright at ULA. Our employees build the best, most reliable rockets flying today and the missions we launch save lives, explore the universe, connect the world and help humankind unlock its potential in space.”
“With the recent announcement of future Vulcan launches, we have a healthy launch backlog with more than 70 Vulcan launches on the manifest. This three-year contract helps secure our place as the go-to provider for launching unique missions on extremely complex trajectories as well as missions that will shape the future of the launch industry. We are excited and proud to work as a single and engaged team that is setting the standard for innovation and excellence in the space industry,” Bruno added.
Leveraging a legacy of 100 percent mission success launching over 145 missions to explore, protect and enhance our world, ULA is the nation’s most experienced and reliable launch service provider with world-leading reliability, schedule confidence, and mission optimization. The technologies we launch protect our country and troops in the battlefield, enable search and rescue, aid meteorologists in tracking severe weather, deliver cutting-edge commercial services, and expand our understanding of the Earth. We deliver value unmatched by any launch services company in the industry, a tireless drive to improve, and commitment to the extraordinary.
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Vulcan Centaur Heavy 60,000 lb to LEO
F9 50,000 lb Expended to LEO
35,800 lb when landing on ship
Looks like ULA has spacex beat.
Not if you’re paying by the pound.
FH has well over double the payload of the heaviest Vulcan at a lower price. Whatever you are referring to is probably unaware of the numbers.
He’s aware of the numbers. He just doesn’t think cost is a problem. In fact, he regards expense as a figure of merit – the higher the better.
You can’t stop harassing me. You should have been banned long ago. Let me try blocking you again and the first time you post a comment trolling I will email Doug and request you be banned.3
If you have to lift 60,000 pounds spacex is not going be able to do that. Vulcan is a little more expensive but ULA is 100 percent successful. Spacex blows up.
The thing is, it is not that big a deal except to borderline sociopath Cult worshipers. Musk is the Trump of space and that makes all of his followers whackjobs.
The most disgusting toxic creeps on the internet in my lengthy experience. And everybody outside their little bubble knows it and avoids them like the plague. They can’t make my comments disappear here like they are doing on SpaceNews.
So enjoy.
Vulcan Centaur Heavy 60,000 to LEO, Status: in development
Falcon Heavy 141,000 to LEO, Status: operational
Falcon Heavy is a 27 engine lashed together monstrosity which is why it has flown so few times, and it is not human-rated.
Vulcan engines—BE4x2. Undelivered. In development
Solid boosters-x6-new. No flight history
Falcon engines -Merlin 1,500+operational flights
Starship……destined to fail. Starlink….destined to fail. Musk will step down and those raptors will likely go on an iteration of the Falcon that will continue to launch satellites. Maybe the toxic dragon will continue to fly if they remove that ton and a half of hypergolics and use an escape tower. But with the ISS de-orbited who is going to need to go anywhere but the vicinity of the Moon?
SpaceX continuing without Musk as a satellite launch company is the best thing that could happen for space exploration. Musk is the Trump of space.
Reality is not going to be kind to you in your declining years. By your lights, every incremental year is going to be worse than the last.
You can’t stop harassing me. You should have been banned long ago. Let me try blocking you again and the first time you post a comment trolling I will email Doug and request you be banned.
Vulcan hasn’t flown at all. Vulcan is also not human-rated.
You can’t stop harassing me. You should have been banned long ago. Let me try blocking you again and the first time you post a comment trolling I will email Doug and request you be banned.2
I would be concerned about the business case for an unflown rocket that needs solids to beat a reusable F9. And more solids to beat and expendable F9. And if Starship comes within shooting distance of its’ goals, Falcon is obsolete. Of course I think commercial viability instead of govt subsidy.
Meanwhile Boeing is following the money by moving its HQ to Arlington, Virginia, a long way from its humble origins…
https://www.reuters.com/bus…
Boeing to move headquarters from Chicago to Virginia
By David Shepardson and Eric M. Johnson
May 5, 2022
5:56 PM CDT
“WASHINGTON/SEATTLE, May 5 (Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Thursday it will move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia, as the crisis-plagued U.S. planemaker works to repair relationships with customers, federal regulators and lawmakers.”
I think they need to repair relationships with people that do the actual work. Probably need to clean house in the office and on the production side as well. Hard to do that when management is a disconnected continent away. It requires local knowledge to manage correctly.
Might be spacex that needs repairing soon.
“NASA estimates that there would be a Starlink in every single asteroid survey image taken for planetary defense against hazardous asteroid impacts, decreasing asteroid survey effectiveness by rendering portions of images unusable,” the space agency said in a letter signed by Samantha Fonder, NASA’s representative to the Commercial Space Transportation Interagency Group.
SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment.
Very, Very bad news for SpaceX. Very good news for planet Earth if somebody can somehow slam the brakes on this slow motion megaconstellation disaster. And it is not just this; the numbers of rockets going up and satellites reentering and polluting the upper atmosphere with alumina is also becoming a concern. Add to this the singular problem of space junk and a possible Kessler Cascade, perhaps triggered by a Carrington event, and it becomes clear megaconstellations need to be outlawed and the number of satellites in Earth orbit be strictly regulated!
Nothing wrong with solids or expendable rockets if they get the job done and are reliable. It is up to the customer what they want to pay. I would be concerned anyone flying spacex is contributing to a slow-motion megaconstellation disaster initiated by rocket jesus. I don’t support spacex and tell everyone I know not to. That company is the worst thing that has ever happened to space exploration. And the damage is accumulating. The cyberlegion of freakish fanboys that have hijacked all these forums is proof enough for anyone.