{"id":73034,"date":"2015-10-02T20:52:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-conducts-100th-mission-with-mexicos-morelos-3-satellite\/"},"modified":"2015-10-02T20:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:52:28","slug":"ula-conducts-100th-mission-with-mexicos-morelos-3-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-conducts-100th-mission-with-mexicos-morelos-3-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Conducts 100th Mission with Mexico\u2019s Morelos 3 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-02-2015] <b>United Launch Alliance <\/b>(ULA) reached a launch milestone Oct. 2, completing its 100 successful launch since forming in 2006. The <b>Boeing<\/b>\u2013<b>Lockheed Martin <\/b>joint venture orbited the Morelos 3 satellite using an Atlas 5 rocket for Mexico\u2019s <b>Ministry of Communications and Transportation <\/b>(SCT).<\/p>\n<p><b>Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services <\/b>procured the contract for the launch, and the mission was accelerated to an earlier position on the Atlas 5 manifest through an agreement with the <b>U.S. Air Force<\/b>. The mission swapped out for the launch slot of a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite. The Boeing-built Morelos 3 is part of the Mexsat constellation, designed for secure communications to meet the needs in Mexico. The last satellite for the Mexsat program was destroyed in an <b>ILS Proton failure<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Morelos 3 launched aboard an Atlas 5 421 configuration vehicle, which includes a 4-meter diameter payload fairing and two <b>Aerojet Rocketdyne <\/b>solid rocket motors attached to the Atlas booster. The Russian-built RD-180 engine from <b>RD Amross <\/b>powered the Atlas booster, and Aerojet Rocketdyne\u2019s RL10C-1 engine powered the Centaur upper stage. This was the 57th Atlas 5 launch since the vehicle\u2019s inaugural mission in 2002 and the fifth in the 421 configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-02-2015] United Launch Alliance (ULA) reached a launch milestone Oct. 2, completing its 100 successful launch since forming in 2006. The Boeing\u2013Lockheed Martin joint venture orbited the Morelos 3 satellite using an Atlas 5 rocket for Mexico\u2019s Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT). Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services procured the contract for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73036,"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-73034","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\/73034"}],"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=73034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}