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The largest, most experienced and reliable launch United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 1 service provider IN THE NATION! Where Can You Find Us?

Denver, CO ULA Headquarters

Pueblo, CO 3000 Employees  Delta II Storage Across the Country Decatur, AL Manufacturing Center

Cape Canaveral Vandenberg Air Force Air Force Station Base (VAFB), CA (CCAFS), FL  Atlas V – SLC-3  Atlas V – SLC-41  Delta II – SLC-2  Delta IV – SLC-37  Delta IV – SLC-6 Harlingen, TX Manufacturing Center

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 2 What do ULA employees do?

Product Development Engineer

Production Technician

Mission Manager Production/Launch Manager Launch Processing Technician

Finance & Accounting

Human Resources Procurement Facilities Management And many others… United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 3 Where Do We Build Rockets? Decatur, AL Plant Fun Facts  1/2 mile long x 1/4 mile wide

 >36 football fields

 entire campus is ~300 acres

 Ceiling from 4 to 12 stories

The plant can manage 20 rocket builds at one time United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 4 Atlas V SpaceSpace Launch ComplexesDelta IV Space Launch Complex-41 Launch Complex-37 CCAFS, Florida CCAFS, Florida

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 5 Space Launch Complexes Delta II Space Launch Complex-2 DeltaVAFB, IV CaliforniaSpace Launch Complex-6 VAFB, California Atlas V Space Launch Complex-3 VAFB, California

Vandenberg Air Force Base

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 6 Satellite An object that orbits a planet or other celestial body.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 7 Spacecraft

A machine designed to operate in space (i.e. a man- made satellite).

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 8 What Do Spacecraft Do?

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 9 What Do Spacecraft Do?

TV & Radio Communication

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 10 What Do Spacecraft Do?

Study the Earth

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 11 Map our planet

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 12 What Do Spacecraft Do?

Study Weather

Predict Hurricanes

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 13 Navigation

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 14 What Do Spacecraft Do?

Track enemy missile launches

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 15 What Do Spacecraft Do?

Study other planets / moons

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 16 What Do Spacecraft Do?

Study the Sun

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 17 What Do Spacecraft Do?

Study deep space

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 18 What Do Spacecraft Do?

Perform Advanced Scientific Research

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 19 What Do Spacecraft Do?

Space Tourism …Coming Soon

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 20 What Do Spacecraft Do?

Transport Astronauts

Hi Mom!

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 21 What Do Spacecraft Do?

Roam Around Other Planets

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 22 Rocket Basics

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 23 Rocket A machine designed to propel objects at very high speeds using an engine whose thrust is made from burning of propellants carried within the rocket.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 24 Launch Vehicle A rocket used to carry a spacecraft into space.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 25 Parts of a Rocket Delta IV Launch Vehicle

Payload Fairing

Spacecraft

1st Stage (Booster) RL10B Engine

Payload Adapter Solid Rocket Boosters

2nd Stage (Upper Stage)

RS-68 Engine

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 26 Physics of a Rocket Launch Ballistic returns to Orbital Velocity earth (SRBs) Over 17,500 MPH

Another Ballistic Under 18,000 MPH Escape Calif. Velocity Launch Sites Florida 25,000 MPH Launch Sites

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 27 What are the Types of Orbits?

Low Earth Orbit Geosynchronous (LEO) Earth Orbit 99 to 1200 Miles (GEO) 22,236 Miles Earth Observation Weather surveillance, Communications Earth imaging Dish Network, International Space Station Sirius XM = 260 miles

Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Inter-Planetary 1,200 to 22,236 Miles Beyond Earth’s Gravity

Navigation Interplanetary Exploration GPS Mar’s Rovers United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 28 How Heavy are Satellites?

GPS Communication National Security

~4,500 lbs ~12,000 lbs ~13,000 lbs to 40,000 lbs

Family Sedan: ~4,500 lbs 2 Humvees: ~6,000 lbs each School Bus: ~23,000 lbs

Delta IV Heavy Delta II UnitedAtlas Launch Alliance V & (ULA) Delta Proprietary IV Information 8 March 2017 | 29 United Launch Alliance (ULA)

Rocket Engines 101 United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 30

May the Force be with you: Thrust

S U

 What is thrust? R

H T – The amount of push the rocket engine provides

T C

 How does a rocket create thrust? A E – The engine creates thrust by burning rocket fuel in R the opposite direction the rocket is heading

Newton

Force =

Mass x Acceleration N

X E NEWTON’S THIRD LAW “For every ACTION, there is an equal and opposite REACTION” United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 31 Liquid Rocket Engine Equation

Force = massCan anyone flow*exit explain velocity this equation? + area of the exit *(pressure at the exit – ambient pressure) United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 32 How Rocket Engines Make Thrust

Solid Rockets Liquid Rockets Fuel and Oxidizer mixed together Fuel and Oxidizer stored separate

Combust when mixed together in engine Grain Patterns affect Thrust Pump speed used to control Thrust

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 33 There are two main types of rocket engines Liquid Rocket  Advantages: Solid Rocket 1. Can be controlled  Advantages: 2. can be 1. Simple started and 2. Low Cost stopped 3. Safe 4. Easy to store  Disadvantages: 1. complex  Disadvantages: 2. expensive 1. Thrust not as 3. Must be controllable kept cold 2. Cannot be 4. Complicated stopped or mechanics restarted United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 34

Atlas V Booster Engine

RD-180 • Engines built in Russia

• Fueled by kerosene & liquid oxygen

• Vacuum thrust ~1,000,000 lbs

• Throttle from 40% to 100%

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 35 Delta IV Booster Engine RS-68

• Engines built in US by Aerojet Rocketdyne

• Fueled by liquid hydrogen & liquid oxygen

• Vacuum thrust ~758,000 lbs

• Two throttle settings: Full and Half

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 36 RL10 Upper Stage Engine

• Engines built in US by Aerojet Rocketdyne

• Fueled by liquid hydrogen & liquid oxygen

• Vacuum thrust ~22,000 lbs

• Not Throttled

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 37 Delta IV Heavy Fun Facts Height Performance

Thrust generated by Delta IV Heavy equivalent to ten 747 airplanes

Boeing 747-8 / ULA Delta IV / Statue of Liberty 250 ft 235 ft 151 ft Fuel Speed

Stage 1 132,000 Gallons LOX 330,000 Gallons LH2

Stage 2 5,000 Gallons LOX 16,500 Gallons LH2

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 38 Opportunities for You!

The ULA / Ball Intern Rocket Launch Event

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 39 QUESTIONS?

Take Me to the Moon

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 42 Math, Science & Space

 Who Would Like to Design Rockets?

 Who Can Be an Engineer/Scientist?

– Curious About How Things Work – Technology is Fun – Love to Tinker with Math & Science – Enjoys Working as a Team

 Who Can work for a Rocket Company?

– YOU CAN! – ULA is not just engineers and rocket scientists – People who specialize in business, finance, procurement, human resources, etc.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 43 Fastest Man Made Machine

January 2006, Atlas V set a WORLD RECORD for the fastest spacecraft leaving Earth’s atmosphere

–Leaving the atmosphere at over 35,800 miles per hour, the New Horizon mission reached the moon in nine hours on it’s way to Pluto. (We’ll get to Pluto July 2015)

–It reached a speed of 47,000 miles per hour Denver to New York City in 2 minutes and 16 seconds

–How did we do it?! • 5 solid rocket boosters • Added a third stage

United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 44 United Launch Alliance (ULA) Proprietary Information 8 March 2017 | 45 Typical Launch Profile: Atlas V