{"id":63847,"date":"2018-10-12T01:47:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-northrop-grumman-and-blue-origin-awarded-air-force-launch-service-agreement-contracts-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T01:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:47:52","slug":"ula-northrop-grumman-and-blue-origin-awarded-air-force-launch-service-agreement-contracts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-northrop-grumman-and-blue-origin-awarded-air-force-launch-service-agreement-contracts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA, Northrop Grumman, and Blue Origin Awarded Air Force Launch Service Agreement Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force awarded&nbsp;<strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong>&nbsp;(ULA),&nbsp;<strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Blue Origin&nbsp;<\/strong>each multi-hundred million dollar contracts on Wednesday to develop a launch system prototype by 2021 for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin will develop its New Glenn launch system with an initial launch capability by 2020, according to an Air Force statement. Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems&nbsp; formerly&nbsp;<strong>Orbital ATK<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;will build the OmegA launch system, and ULA is slated to build its Vulcan Centaur launch system, both with initial launch capability by 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Read more at Defense Daily &gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force awarded&nbsp;United Launch Alliance&nbsp;(ULA),&nbsp;Northrop Grumman, and&nbsp;Blue Origin&nbsp;each multi-hundred million dollar contracts on Wednesday to develop a launch system prototype by 2021 for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program. Blue Origin will develop its New Glenn launch system with an initial launch capability by 2020, according to an Air Force statement. Northrop Grumman Innovation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63849,"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-63847","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\/63847"}],"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=63847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}