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NASA Taps ULA for Potential $154M Landsat 9 Launch Services Contract


United Launch Alliance has secured a potential $153.8 million contract from NASA to provide launch support services for the Landsat 9 satellite.

NASA said Friday it expects Landsat 9 to take off aboard the Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) joint venture™s Atlas V 401 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as early as December 2020.

Landsat 9 is a joint project of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey designed to gather multispectral images of the global land surface and observe land use changes.

The space agency™s launch services program at Florida-based Kennedy Space Center will oversee the contract with ULA.

NASA™s Goddard Space Flight Center is responsible for spacecraft development functions in behalf of the agency’s science mission directorate.

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