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ULA Won’t Bid On GPS III Launch Without Additional RD-180s

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

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ULA Won’t Bid On GPS III Launch Without Additional RD-180s

An artist's rendering of a GPS III satellite. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) won’t bid for the Air Force’s Global Positioning System III (GPS III) launch unless it gets permission to acquire additional Russian-developed RD-180s, the company’s CEO said Friday.“In order to bid on GPS, legally, I have to have an engine,” Tory Bruno told reporters during a teleconference celebrating ULA’s 100th mission. “I can get it legislatively or I can get it through the waiver process.”Bruno said on Twitter after the teleconference that the fiscal year 2015 National…

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