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Centennial-based United Launch Alliance won a $600 million NASA contract to launch four missions beginning in 2011. The launches, which will use Atlas V expendable launch vehicles, will be sent aloft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
The contract includes the launch services for the rockets, plus additional services for payload processing, launch-vehicle integration, and tracking, data and telemetry support.
The four payloads are the Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission, the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, and the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites K and L, or TDRS-K and TDRS-L, missions.
ULA is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The Denver Post
