{"id":67162,"date":"2017-10-04T01:38:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spaceflight-to-launch-u-class-payloads-for-nasa\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T01:38:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:38:29","slug":"spaceflight-to-launch-u-class-payloads-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spaceflight-to-launch-u-class-payloads-for-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight to Launch U-Class Payloads for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>NASA<\/strong> Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has awarded <strong>Spaceflight <\/strong>its first contract for launch and integration services. The multi-year contract covers launch services in 2018 for a maximum of 24 U-Class payloads, with options to provide launch services for up to 24 additional payloads in 2019 and 2020. The potential total contract value is more than $5 million, according to Spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p>U-Class payloads are miniature space research satellites that typically use Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronic components. The U-Class payloads flown by NASA, often created by universities and nonprofit organizations, play a foundational role in the agency\u2019s technology development and include investigations in planetary exploration, Earth Observation (EO), and fundamental Earth and space science.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight works with many global launch vehicle providers, brokering rides on <strong>SpaceX\u2019s<\/strong> Falcon 9, <strong>ISRO\u2019s <\/strong>Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), <strong>ISC<\/strong> <strong>Kosmotras\u2019<\/strong> Dnepr, <strong>Orbital ATK\u2019s <\/strong>Antares and Cygnus, <strong>Rocket Lab\u2019s <\/strong>Electron, <strong>Arianespace\u2019s <\/strong>Soyuz and others, to ensure organizations can access space when they want. The \u201crideshare service\u201d model provides more options for organizations to reach a desired orbit at a potentially lower cost than buying their own launch vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) has awarded Spaceflight its first contract for launch and integration services. The multi-year contract covers launch services in 2018 for a maximum of 24 U-Class payloads, with options to provide launch services for up to 24 additional payloads in 2019 and 2020. The potential total contract value is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64146,"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-67162","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\/67162"}],"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=67162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}