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United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security.

ULA was formed in December 2006 by combining the teams at these companies which provide spacecraft launch services to the government of the United States.

U.S. government launch customers include both 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.

Centaur is a rocket stage designed for use as the upper stage of space launch vehicles and is currently used on the Atlas V.

Centaur was the world's first high-energy upper stage, burning liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX), and has enabled the launch of some of NASA's most important scientific missions over its 50-year history.

The Vulcan rocket is an American heavy-payload launch vehicle under development since 2014 by United Launch Alliance (ULA), funded by a public–private partnership with the US government.

ULA expects the first launch of the new rocket to occur no earlier than 2019.

A rocket (from Italian rocchetto "bobbin") is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine.

Rocket engine exhaust is formed entirely from propellant carried within the rocket before use.

Rocket engines work by action and reaction and push rockets forward simply by expelling their exhaust in the opposite direction at high speed, and can therefore work in the vacuum of space.

Reliability engineering is engineering that emphasizes dependability in the lifecycle management of a product.

Dependability, or reliability, describes the ability of a system or component to function under stated conditions for a specified period of time.

Reliability may also describe the ability to function at a specified moment or interval of time (Availability).

Reliability engineering represents a sub-discipline within systems engineering.

Reliability is theoretically defined as the probability of success, as the frequency of failures; or in terms of availability, as a probability derived from reliability, testability and maintainability.

Testability, Maintainability and maintenance are often defined as a part of "reliability engineering" in Reliability Programs.

Reliability plays a key role in the cost-effectiveness of systems.