{"id":1202830,"date":"2023-11-14T12:09:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202830"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:09:26","slug":"sale-of-united-launch-alliance-is-nearing-its-end-with-three-potential-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202830","title":{"rendered":"Sale of United Launch Alliance is nearing its end, with three potential buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/vulcan-to-pad-800x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"ULA's Vulcan rocket rolls to the launch pad for testing.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/vulcan-to-pad.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1536\" data-width=\"2048\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> ULA&#8217;s Vulcan rocket rolls to the launch pad for testing. (credit: United Launch Alliance)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Lockheed Martin and Boeing are close to selecting a buyer for United Launch Alliance, two sources told Ars. The jointly owned rocket company, which was founded in 2006 and for a time had a monopoly on US government launch contracts, has been up for sale most of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The sources say three buyers have emerged for the Colorado-based launch company. These include a private equity fund, the Jeff Bezos-owned space company Blue Origin, and a well-capitalized aerospace firm that is interested in increasing its space portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>There is precedent for a private equity firm\u2014typically a group of investors that purchases a company, overhauls it, and then resells the business\u2014buying a launch company. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeroequity.com\/ae-industrial-partners-reaches-a-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-a-significant-stake-in-firefly-aerospace-a-leading-provider-of-launch-and-in-space-vehicles\/\">In early 2022<\/a>, AE Industrial Partners acquired the launch and space services company Firefly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983611#p3\">Read 11 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983611&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1983611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sale of United Launch Alliance is nearing its end, with three potential buyers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ ULA&#8217;s Vulcan rocket rolls to the launch pad for testing. (credit: United Launch Alliance) Lockheed Martin and Boeing are close to selecting a buyer for United Launch Alliance, two sources told Ars. The jointly owned rocket company, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1202830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1202830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}