{"id":80566,"date":"2013-07-30T18:52:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mda-signs-1-7-million-contract-with-snc\/"},"modified":"2013-07-30T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:52:29","slug":"mda-signs-1-7-million-contract-with-snc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mda-signs-1-7-million-contract-with-snc\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA Signs $1.7 Million Contract with SNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 150px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Dream_Chaser_pre-drop_tests_3.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<em>Sierra Nevada Corporation SNC Space Systems\u2019 team members tow the Dream Chaser flight vehicle along a concrete runway at NASA\u2019s Dryden Flight Research Center in California for range testing and taxi tow.<\/em><br \/>\nImage credit: NASA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Satellite TODAY 07-30-13] <b>MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)<\/b> has signed a $1.7 million contract with <b>Sierra Nevada Corporation (<\/b><b>SNC<\/b><b>) <\/b>to develop an engineering concept solution to provide on-board communication signal processing capabilities for its Dream Chaser crew transportation vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>SNC is one of only three companies funded under <b>NASA\u2019s <\/b>Commercial Crew Program aimed at developing a reusable spacecraft to transport crew and critical cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) and then return to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, this work could form the basis for an operational communications solution to be incorporated into the future reusable crew transportation spacecraft, according to a written statement from MDA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Nevada Corporation SNC Space Systems\u2019 team members tow the Dream Chaser flight vehicle along a concrete runway at NASA\u2019s Dryden Flight Research Center in California for range testing and taxi tow. Image credit: NASA [Satellite TODAY 07-30-13] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed a $1.7 million contract with Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80568,"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-80566","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\/80566"}],"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=80566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}