{"id":64837,"date":"2018-06-22T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-secures-air-force-launch-with-falcon-heavy\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:16:34","slug":"spacex-secures-air-force-launch-with-falcon-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-secures-air-force-launch-with-falcon-heavy\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Secures Air Force Launch with Falcon Heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_274786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274786\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-274786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/screen-shot-2017-12-28-at-4-30-28-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/screen-shot-2017-12-28-at-4-30-28-pm.png 800w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/screen-shot-2017-12-28-at-4-30-28-pm-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/screen-shot-2017-12-28-at-4-30-28-pm-500x333.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-274786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Falcon Heavy\u2019s three first stage booster cores. Photo: SpaceX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>SpaceX<\/strong> has secured a $130 million firm-fixed-price contract from the <strong>U.S. Air Force <\/strong>for launch services to deliver the Air Force Space Command-52 (AFSPC-52) satellite using it\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket. This launch service contract will include launch vehicle production and mission, as well as integration, launch operations and spaceflight worthiness activities. According to the U.S. <strong>Department of Defense <\/strong>(DOD), the award is the result of a competitive acquisition, and two proposals were received.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaceX is honored by the Air Force\u2019s selection of Falcon Heavy to launch the competitively-awarded AFSPC-52 mission,\u201d said Gywnne Shotwell, president and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SpaceX, in a statement. \u201cOn behalf of all of our employees, I want to thank the Air Force for certifying Falcon Heavy, awarding us this critically important mission, and for their trust and confidence in our company. SpaceX is pleased to continue offering the American taxpayer the most cost-effective, reliable launch services for vital national security space missions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falcon Heavy\u2019s three first stage booster cores. Photo: SpaceX. SpaceX has secured a $130 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force for launch services to deliver the Air Force Space Command-52 (AFSPC-52) satellite using it\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket. This launch service contract will include launch vehicle production and mission, as well as integration, launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64840,"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-64837","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\/64837"}],"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=64837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}