{"id":75100,"date":"2015-02-02T17:27:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T09:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-completes-second-of-13-missions-for-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T09:27:23","slug":"ula-completes-second-of-13-missions-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-completes-second-of-13-missions-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Completes Second of 13 Missions for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 02-02-2015] The <b>Boeing<\/b>\u2013<b>Lockheed Martin <\/b>joint venture <b>United Launch Alliance <\/b>(ULA) successfully launched <b>NASA<\/b>\u2019s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite on Jan. 31 aboard a Delta 2 rocket. The launch also delivered four CubeSats for the agency\u2019s Educational Launch of Nanosatellite (ELANA) initiative.<\/p>\n<p>ULA used a Delta 2 7320 configuration vehicle, which employed a first stage booster comprised of <b>Aerojet Rocketdyne<\/b>\u2019s RS-27A main engine and three strap-on solid boosters from <b>Alliant Techsystems <\/b>(ATK). Aerojet RocketDyne\u2019s AJ10-118K engine powered the second stage.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s SMAP satellite will provide global measurements of soil moisture, including freeze and thaw state data from a near-polar orbit at an altitude of 426 miles. The research satellite will be able to map Earth\u2019s equatorial regions every three days, and the higher latitudes every two days using a 19.7-foot-wide, rotating antenna capable of observing a 620-mile-wide swath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 02-02-2015] The Boeing\u2013Lockheed Martin joint venture United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched NASA\u2019s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite on Jan. 31 aboard a Delta 2 rocket. The launch also delivered four CubeSats for the agency\u2019s Educational Launch of Nanosatellite (ELANA) initiative. ULA used a Delta 2 7320 configuration vehicle, which employed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75101,"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-75100","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\/75100"}],"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=75100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}