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According to space Twitter, yes, that is correct. Atlas and Centaur both performed nominally.

Edit: looks like Tory Bruno (ULA CEO) has confirmed that Atlas and Centaur performed well [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1208035453850587136

ULA remains expensive, slow moving, but very reliable. It seems like they have a healthier engineering culture than Boeing.

ULA is a JV between Lockheed and Boeing though?

Maybe they have have actual Lockeed Engineers managing the JV, instead of Boeing's Financeers.

Yes, but it's pretty solidly firewalled off from both.

They have their own separate team, the companies just have stakes in it.

I know people over there. They are struggling but there's still a solid contingent that gives a shit. To spite some missteps they seem to be doing ok at getting young blood in and maintaining a productive culture.

This makes a lot of sense: the Atlas V is exceptionally reliable while the Starliner capsule is on its first flight.

Wouldn't be the first time a timing error has caused a huge failure. A similar error during Desert Storm cause 28 soldiers to be killed.

http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold//disasters/patriot.htm...