{"id":80120,"date":"2013-09-10T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-awards-aso-with-contract-for-mms-mission\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:48:00","slug":"nasa-awards-aso-with-contract-for-mms-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-awards-aso-with-contract-for-mms-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Awards ASO with Contract for MMS Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-10-13]<b> NASA <\/b>has awarded<b> Astrotech Corporation\u2019s Astrotech Space Operations (ASO) <\/b>subsidiary, a provider of commercial space services, a contract to provide facilities and pre-launch processing services for the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission to launch in late 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Comprised of four identical satellites, MMS is the first mission awarded under the previously announced $9.1 million NASA Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract with Astrotech Space Operations-Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMMS will provide scientists with an opportunity to observe the Earth\u2019s magnetosphere in three dimensions,\u201d stated ASO general manager Don M. White Jr. \u201cAstrotech is excited to be part of this mission to learn more about space weather and its effects on our planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ASO Florida has provided payload processing for NASA satellites such as RBSP, Juno, SDO, LRO\/LCROSS, GRAIL and TDRS K. TDRS L will arrive for processing later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-10-13] NASA has awarded Astrotech Corporation\u2019s Astrotech Space Operations (ASO) subsidiary, a provider of commercial space services, a contract to provide facilities and pre-launch processing services for the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission to launch in late 2014. Comprised of four identical satellites, MMS is the first mission awarded under the previously announced $9.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80121,"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-80120","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\/80120"}],"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=80120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}