{"id":67840,"date":"2017-06-30T20:41:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-wins-191-million-air-force-contract-for-stp-3-mission-2\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T20:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:41:13","slug":"ula-wins-191-million-air-force-contract-for-stp-3-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-wins-191-million-air-force-contract-for-stp-3-mission-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Wins $191 Million Air Force Contract for STP-3 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> announced it has awarded <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) a contract to launch the Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission. This contract resulted from a competitive award under the Air Force\u2019s Phase 1A procurement strategy and is valued at $191.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The STP-3 mission is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2019 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in&nbsp;Florida. This mission will launch aboard an Atlas 5 551 vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>ULA also launched the first Space Test Program mission in&nbsp;March 2007. The launch marked the first Air Force Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) mission on an Atlas 5 and the first Atlas 5 mission for ULA.<\/p>\n<p>The STP-3 mission consists of a primary space vehicle (STPSat 6) and an integrated propulsive EELV Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) holding up to six payloads (IP-ESPA). The STPSat 6 space vehicle will host the <strong>National Nuclear Security Administration<\/strong> (NNSA) Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System 3 (SABRS-3) payload, and the <strong>NASA<\/strong> Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload. The <strong>Department of Defense<\/strong> (DOD) also manifested seven science and technology payloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force announced it has awarded United Launch Alliance (ULA) a contract to launch the Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission. This contract resulted from a competitive award under the Air Force\u2019s Phase 1A procurement strategy and is valued at $191.1 million. The STP-3 mission is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67841,"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-67840","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\/67840"}],"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=67840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}