{"id":76712,"date":"2014-08-04T22:08:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T14:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/united-launch-alliance-carries-seventh-gps-satellite-to-orbit\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T22:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T14:08:41","slug":"united-launch-alliance-carries-seventh-gps-satellite-to-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/united-launch-alliance-carries-seventh-gps-satellite-to-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"United Launch Alliance Carries Seventh GPS Satellite to Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-04-2014] <b>United Launch Alliance <\/b>delivered the United States <b>Air Force<\/b>\u2019s seventh Global Positioning System (GPS 2F-7) satellite to space on Friday Aug. 1, 2014 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>An RD-180 engine supplied by <b>RD Amross <\/b>powered the Atlas 5 booster. <b>Aerojet Rocketdyne<\/b>\u2019s RL10A-4-2engine was used for the Centaur upper stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis launch marks the third time this year ULA has successfully launched two missions within a week,\u201d said Jim Sponnick, ULA vice president, Atlas and Delta Programs.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing built the GPS 2F-7 satellite and will conduct the on-orbit checkout with the Air Force. The company expects checkout to complete by the end of next month. GPS 2F-8 is scheduled to launch during the fourth quarter of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>ULA\u2019s Next mission is an Atlas 5 launch of <b>DigitalGlobe<\/b>\u2019s WorldView 3 satellite, currently scheduled for Aug. 13, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-04-2014] United Launch Alliance delivered the United States Air Force\u2019s seventh Global Positioning System (GPS 2F-7) satellite to space on Friday Aug. 1, 2014 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket. An RD-180 engine supplied by RD Amross powered the Atlas 5 booster. Aerojet Rocketdyne\u2019s RL10A-4-2engine was used for the Centaur upper stage. \u201cThis launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76716,"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-76712","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\/76712"}],"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=76712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}