{"id":76771,"date":"2014-07-30T01:32:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-completes-85th-launch-with-three-satellite-mission\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T01:32:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:32:38","slug":"ula-completes-85th-launch-with-three-satellite-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-completes-85th-launch-with-three-satellite-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Completes 85th Launch with Three-Satellite Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-29-2014] <b>United Launch Alliance <\/b>(ULA), a joint venture between <b>Boeing <\/b>and <b>Lockheed Martin<\/b>, launched three <b>Air Force <\/b>satellites on July 28, 2014. Using a Delta 4 rocket, the company carried two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites and the Automated Activation and Guidance Experiment for Local Space (ANGELS) satellite to near-Geostationary Orbits (GEO).<\/p>\n<p>The AFSPC 4 mission was the first to use an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) on a Delta rocket. An <b>Aerojet Rocketdyne <\/b>RS-68 main engine and two <b>ATK<\/b>-built GEM-60 solid rocket motors powered the mission. Aerojet Rocketdyne also built the RL10B-2 engine used for the upper stage, and ATK supplied a dozen composite structures for the rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The twin GSSAP satellites were built to improve orbital predictions for objects in GEO and are able to conduct Rendezvous and Proximity Operations<\/p>\n<p>(RPO) maneuvering near objects of interest for closer observation. The ANGELS satellite is also dedicated to improving Space Situational Awareness (SSA), and will examine techniques for providing a clearer picture of the environment surrounding U.S. space assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-29-2014] United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, launched three Air Force satellites on July 28, 2014. Using a Delta 4 rocket, the company carried two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites and the Automated Activation and Guidance Experiment for Local Space (ANGELS) satellite to near-Geostationary Orbits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76772,"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-76771","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\/76771"}],"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=76771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}