{"id":50905,"date":"2024-07-22T21:20:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T13:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-systems-command-awards-ula-and-spacex-nssl-contract-modifications\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T21:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T13:20:06","slug":"space-systems-command-awards-ula-and-spacex-nssl-contract-modifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-systems-command-awards-ula-and-spacex-nssl-contract-modifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Systems Command Awards ULA and SpaceX NSSL Contract Modifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">As <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong> looks for new entrants beside&nbsp;<strong>Blue Origin<\/strong> for Phase 3 of National Security Space Launch (NSSL), the service on July 19 awarded more than $1.7 billion in Phase 2 contract modifications to the Space Force\u2019s established rocket providers \u2014 <strong>United Launch Services,<\/strong> LLC \u2013 a subsidiary of<strong> United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) \u2014 and <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded United Launch about $1.1 billion for Phase 2 launches through fiscal 2027 to bring the total awarded to United Launch for Phase 2 since 2020 to $4.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX received a $661 million contract modification to bring the total awarded to that company under NSSL Phase 2 to $4 billion.<\/p>\n<p data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">Under an umbrella worth&nbsp;up to $5.6 billion over the next five years for at least 30 launches, SSC made its first Phase 3, Lane 1 NSSL awards last month to United Launch, SpaceX, and Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>The Phase 3, Lane 1 launches would last through June 2029 with an option for another five years.<\/p>\n<p>Other launch providers may enter the field, beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2025\u2013this October through December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we anticipated, the pool of awardees is small this year because many companies are still maturing their launch capabilities,\u201d Brig. Gen. Kristin Panzenhagen, SSC\u2019s program executive officer for assured access to space, said in a June 13 SSC statement. \u201cOur strategy accounted for this by allowing on-ramp opportunities every year, and we expect increasing competition and diversity as new providers and systems complete development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As U.S. Space Force looks for new entrants beside&nbsp;Blue Origin for Phase 3 of National Security Space Launch (NSSL), the service on July 19 awarded more than $1.7 billion in Phase 2 contract modifications to the Space Force\u2019s established rocket providers \u2014 United Launch Services, LLC \u2013 a subsidiary of United Launch Alliance (ULA) \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}