OTD in Space - October 2: 100th Liftoff for United Launch Alliance - video Dailymotion

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On Oct. 2, 2015, the United Launch Alliance launched its 100th rocket!  The United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a private spaceflight company that was born in 2006 as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing. For its 100th mission, ULA launched a Mexican communication satellite named Morelos-3 on an Atlas V rocket. This wasn't just the 100th successful mission for ULA, but it was also the company's 100th attempt to launch a rocket. ULA hereby continued its 100 percent launch success rate.

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00:00On This Day in Space

00:03In 2015, the United Launch Alliance launched its 100th rocket.

00:07The United Launch Alliance, or ULA, is a private spaceflight company that was born in 2006

00:12as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

00:15For its 100th mission, ULA launched a Mexican communications satellite named Morelos-3

00:19on an Atlas V rocket.

00:21This wasn't just the 100th successful mission for ULA,

00:24but it was also the company's 100th attempt to launch a rocket.

00:27ULA hereby continued its 100% launch success rate.

00:31And that's what happened on this day in space.

OTD in Space - October 2: 100th Liftoff for United Launch Alliance

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