{"id":74662,"date":"2015-03-25T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-selects-orbital-atk-for-future-jpss-satellites\/"},"modified":"2015-03-25T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T11:15:30","slug":"nasa-selects-orbital-atk-for-future-jpss-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-selects-orbital-atk-for-future-jpss-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Selects Orbital ATK for Future JPSS Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 03-25-2015] <b>Orbital ATK<\/b> received a contract valued at up to $470 million to build the Joint Polar Satellite Systems 2 (JPSS 2) weather satellite, with options for two more spacecraft. The JPSS 2 contract, worth $253 million, is a firm order, while the JPSS 3 and 4, valued at $217 million, will be built based on a later decision from NASA.<\/p>\n<p>Orbital ATK will manufacture the spacecraft on the LEOStar 3 medium-class low-altitude-orbit platform. Other NASA spacecraft, such as the Landsat 8 and ICESat 2 Earth science satellites are based on the same satellite bus. The company has built a total of 12 spacecraft on the LEOStar 3 bus to date.<\/p>\n<p>JPSS 2 is scheduled for delivery in 2020. The next two, if exercised, are planned for 2024 and 2028 respectively. JPSS satellites have a design life of seven years and are part of NASA\u2019s partnership with NOAA for space-based weather observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 03-25-2015] Orbital ATK received a contract valued at up to $470 million to build the Joint Polar Satellite Systems 2 (JPSS 2) weather satellite, with options for two more spacecraft. The JPSS 2 contract, worth $253 million, is a firm order, while the JPSS 3 and 4, valued at $217 million, will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74664,"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-74662","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\/74662"}],"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=74662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}