{"id":76196,"date":"2014-09-17T00:48:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/united-launch-alliance-closing-in-on-domestic-engine-decision-2\/"},"modified":"2014-09-17T00:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:48:31","slug":"united-launch-alliance-closing-in-on-domestic-engine-decision-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/united-launch-alliance-closing-in-on-domestic-engine-decision-2\/","title":{"rendered":"United Launch Alliance Closing in on Domestic Engine Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-16-2014] <b>United Launch Alliance<\/b> (ULA) has announced it has completed a study on domestically produced engines that could replace the Russian-built RD-180 for the Atlas 5. In June 2014 the joint Boeing-Lockheed Martin venture signed several contracts with U.S. companies to evaluate domestic alternatives following the degradation of political relations between the United States and Russia following Russian involvement in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>ULA said in a statement that the company intends to build an American engine with a U.S. aerospace partner. The company has initiated a new phase of investments to support a first launch in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one can deny the tremendous performance and reliability the RD-180 engine has provided,\u201d said George Sowers, ULA\u2019s vice president of advanced programs and lead for the propulsion activities. \u201cHowever, it is critical to our near-term national security space missions and the capabilities those missions provide, to have a phased and measured approach of continuing to fly those engines, while simultaneously working to develop a new American engine for future missions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-16-2014] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has announced it has completed a study on domestically produced engines that could replace the Russian-built RD-180 for the Atlas 5. In June 2014 the joint Boeing-Lockheed Martin venture signed several contracts with U.S. companies to evaluate domestic alternatives following the degradation of political relations between the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76199,"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-76196","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\/76196"}],"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=76196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}