{"title":"Mitsubishi Heavy H3 vs United Launch Alliance: Heavy & medium compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/mitsubishi-heavy-h3-vs-united-launch-alliance","comparison":"Mitsubishi Heavy H3 ranks 21 on the Space 100 with a score of 81; United Launch Alliance ranks 38 with 77. Mitsubishi Heavy H3 is ahead on technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. United Launch Alliance is ahead on deployment, commercials and progress. Level on production. Mitsubishi Heavy H3 is based in Tokyo, Japan, United Launch Alliance in Centennial, United States. Mitsubishi Heavy H3: Established. United Launch Alliance: Established. Mitsubishi Heavy H3 is named in 0 signals and United Launch Alliance in 137.","companies":[{"name":"Mitsubishi Heavy H3","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/mitsubishi-heavy-h3","city":"Tokyo","country":"Japan","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' H3 is Japan's flagship heavy launcher, jointly developed with JAXA and operated as MHI's launch-service business. It completed successful H3 launches carrying HTV-X1 on Oct-25, QZS-6 on Feb-25, the low-cost Type 30 configuration with six small satellites on Jun-26, and QZS-7 on Aug-26, while also signing a 2028 launch contract with ispace for the ULTRA lunar lander on Jul-26. The program is structurally important for Japan's sovereign launch, defense, navigation, ISS-logistics, and emerging commercial lunar ecosystem, but its cadence and commercial economics remain less proven than SpaceX's.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":21,"score":81,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":10,"position":10,"progress":8,"firepower":10,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Mitsubishi Heavy Industries develops and operates the H3 launch vehicle and sells launch services to government and commercial customers, including ispace.","segment":"Heavy & medium","layer":"Launch"},"signals_total":0,"facts_total":16},{"name":"United Launch Alliance","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/united-launch-alliance","city":"Centennial","country":"United States","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"United Launch Alliance (a Boeing-Lockheed JV) is targeting 18-22 launches in 2026 (versus 6 in 2025, a chronic cadence shortfall) as it ramps its NSSL-certified Vulcan alongside remaining Atlas 5 flights, with ~6 Vulcans in storage and doubled Cape processing capacity. It is structurally sold out for years on a 26-mission NSSL slate, 38 Vulcan launches for Amazon Leo (the largest commercial launch agreement), and Starliner and ViaSat-3 missions, but squeezed between SpaceX economics and Blue Origin ambitions. The current revenue figure is dated (~$1.3-1.5B class, no filing).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":38,"score":77,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":8,"commercial":8,"deployment":9,"production":6,"technology":6},"why":"United Launch Alliance provides orbital launch services on Atlas V and Vulcan rockets for U.S. national-security, NASA, commercial and satellite-constellation customers.","segment":"Heavy & medium","layer":"Launch"},"signals_total":137,"facts_total":99}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}