{"id":72975,"date":"2015-10-09T18:08:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-launches-nro-satellite-cubesats-on-atlas-5-rocket\/"},"modified":"2015-10-09T18:08:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:08:44","slug":"ula-launches-nro-satellite-cubesats-on-atlas-5-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-launches-nro-satellite-cubesats-on-atlas-5-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Launches NRO Satellite, CubeSats on Atlas 5 Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-09-2015] <b>United Launch Alliance <\/b>(ULA) orbited a defense satellite for the <b>U.S. National Reconnaissance Office<\/b> (NRO) along with 13 CubeSats on Oct. 8 using an Atlas 5 rocket. The 13 Government Rideshare Advanced Concepts Experiment (GRACE) CubeSats are comprised of nine NRO-sponsored CubeSats and four <b>NASA<\/b>-sponsored CubeSats. Manufacturers of the CubeSats consist of <b>The Aerospace Corporation<\/b>, the <b>Army\u2019s Space and Missile Defense Center<\/b>, <b>Tyvak<\/b>, <b>SRI International<\/b>, the <b>University of Alaska-Fairbanks<\/b>, <b>Salish Kootenai College<\/b>, <b>AMSAT <\/b>and NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Each CubeSat weighs 1 to 5 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe GRACE CubeSats will perform missions demonstrating tracking technologies, software-defined radio communications and will also conduct other measurements and experiments,\u201d said Jim Sponnick, VP of Atlas and Delta programs at ULA. \u201cWe are happy that ULA could play a part in bringing these nano-satellites to orbit along with the NRO payload through a cost-effective rideshare.\u201d The NROL-55 mission is ULA\u2019s 10th launch in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-09-2015] United Launch Alliance (ULA) orbited a defense satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) along with 13 CubeSats on Oct. 8 using an Atlas 5 rocket. The 13 Government Rideshare Advanced Concepts Experiment (GRACE) CubeSats are comprised of nine NRO-sponsored CubeSats and four NASA-sponsored CubeSats. Manufacturers of the CubeSats consist of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72304,"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-72975","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\/72975"}],"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=72975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}