{"id":68878,"date":"2017-02-13T22:54:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-air-force-awards-orbital-atk-with-integration-contract-2\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T22:54:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:54:27","slug":"us-air-force-awards-orbital-atk-with-integration-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-air-force-awards-orbital-atk-with-integration-contract-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Awards Orbital ATK with Integration Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles System Center<\/strong> has awarded <strong>Orbital ATK <\/strong>a contract to provide payload integration and support services for Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STPSat-6). The multipurpose satellite will operationally demonstrate advanced communication capabilities, collect space weather data and support nuclear detonation detection in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere or in near space. STPSat-6 is the primary payload on the STP-3 mission, which is set to launch no earlier than June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>STPSat-6 will be built on Orbital ATK\u2019s modular A-500 bus, which will be modified to fit mission requirements. Under the contract, Orbital ATK will integrate and test the spacecraft, deliver operations procedures, and support launch and on-orbit check-out. The satellite will carry nine payloads from the <strong>Department of Defense (DOD)<\/strong>, the <strong>National Nuclear Security Administration<\/strong> and <strong>NASA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The multiple payloads on board STPSat-6 include the Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS-3), NASA\u2019s Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD), and seven experiments from the <strong>DOD Space Experiments Review Board<\/strong>. Orbital ATK\u2019s heritage bus and avionics product line is designed to support multiple payloads and can be adapted to support the customer\u2019s desired mission life.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Test Program (STP), which is the primary provider of spaceflight for the DOD space science and technology community, sponsors and manages the STP-3 mission. The Advanced Systems and Development Directorate of the Space and Missile Center manages STP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Air Force Space and Missiles System Center has awarded Orbital ATK a contract to provide payload integration and support services for Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STPSat-6). The multipurpose satellite will operationally demonstrate advanced communication capabilities, collect space weather data and support nuclear detonation detection in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere or in near space. STPSat-6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68880,"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-68878","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\/68878"}],"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=68878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}