{"id":65730,"date":"2018-03-16T19:53:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-ula-get-645-million-in-air-force-contracts\/"},"modified":"2018-03-16T19:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:53:42","slug":"spacex-ula-get-645-million-in-air-force-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-ula-get-645-million-in-air-force-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX, ULA Get $645 Million in Air Force Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. <strong>Air Force<\/strong> has awarded two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contracts to&nbsp;<strong>SpaceX<\/strong> and <strong>United Launch Alliance <\/strong>(ULA).&nbsp; SpaceX received a $290.6 million firm-fixed-price contract to orbit three Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellites (1 base and 2 options). ULA received a $354.8 million firm-fixed-price contract, to launch Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) 8 and AFSPC 12 satellites. AFSPC 8 consists of two identical Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites, and AFSPC-12 consists of the Wide Field of View Testbed and a secondary payload adapter.<\/p>\n<p>Both contracts include launch vehicle production, mission integration, launch operations, and spaceflight certification. These missions are planned to&nbsp;be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or Kennedy Space Center, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth competition under the current Phase 1A procurement strategy. These launch service contract awards strike a balance between meeting operational needs and lowering launch costs through reintroducing competition for national security space missions, according to the Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force has awarded two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contracts to&nbsp;SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA).&nbsp; SpaceX received a $290.6 million firm-fixed-price contract to orbit three Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellites (1 base and 2 options). ULA received a $354.8 million firm-fixed-price contract, to launch Air Force Space Command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65732,"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-65730","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\/65730"}],"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=65730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}