{"id":76040,"date":"2014-10-02T01:41:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sierra-nevada-corp-partners-with-stratolaunch-for-dream-chaser-derivative\/"},"modified":"2014-10-02T01:41:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:41:04","slug":"sierra-nevada-corp-partners-with-stratolaunch-for-dream-chaser-derivative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sierra-nevada-corp-partners-with-stratolaunch-for-dream-chaser-derivative\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Nevada Corp Partners With Stratolaunch for Dream Chaser Derivative"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-01-2014] Following <b>NASA<\/b>\u2019s decision not to use the Dream Chaser \u201cmini-shuttle\u201d to ferry astronauts for the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), <b>Sierra Nevada Corporation <\/b>(SNC) has ramped up its efforts to find other commercial uses for its space vehicle. In addition to continuing to pursue human spaceflight, the company has also begun exploring other applications including point-to-point transportation and satellite launch options.<\/p>\n<p>SNC has joined forces with <b>Stratolaunch<\/b>, a joint project between <b>Orbital Sciences <\/b>and <b>Scaled Composites<\/b>, to use the company\u2019s air-launch architecture for a scaled version of Dream Chaser. The reusable Dream Chaser-Stratolauncher combination would be capable of carrying three people to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for scientific missions, light cargo transport or suborbital point-to-point transportation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis relationship would expand our portfolio to include the highly flexible Stratolaunch system for launching reusable crewed or uncrewed spacecraft, or for rapid satellite constellation deployment,\u201d said Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president of SNC\u2019s Space Systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-01-2014] Following NASA\u2019s decision not to use the Dream Chaser \u201cmini-shuttle\u201d to ferry astronauts for the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has ramped up its efforts to find other commercial uses for its space vehicle. In addition to continuing to pursue human spaceflight, the company has also begun exploring other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74450,"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-76040","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\/76040"}],"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=76040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}