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On This Day In Space: Oct. 2, 2015: 100th liftoff for United Launch Alliance

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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.

An Atlas V 421 rocket launched the Morelos-3 mission for Mexico’s Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes (Ministry of Communications and Transportation) on Oct. 2, 2015, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. (Image credit: United Launch Alliance)
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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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