{"id":81217,"date":"2013-04-10T17:12:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T09:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-selects-itt-exelis-to-provide-composite-structures-for-geostar-3\/"},"modified":"2013-04-10T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T09:12:20","slug":"orbital-selects-itt-exelis-to-provide-composite-structures-for-geostar-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-selects-itt-exelis-to-provide-composite-structures-for-geostar-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Selects ITT Exelis to Provide Composite Structures for GEOStar-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"203\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/IntroPic_GEO.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>GEOStar Platform.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Orbital\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Satellite TODAY 04-10-13] <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong> has selected <strong>ITT Exelis<\/strong> to manufacture, assemble, test and deliver three composite-based bus structures for its GEOStar-3 communications satellite platform. Under the contract, Exelis will also provide technical services and support.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The company has manufactured composite components for space programs such as Chandra, CrIS, IKONOS, the James Webb Space Telescope, GeoEye-1, Geoeye-2, WorldView-1, WorldView-2, WorldView-3 and GOES-R. Exelis also provides composite structures and assemblies for aircraft such as the F-35 Lightning II, the CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter, several Boeing 7-series jets and GE engines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEOStar Platform. Image credit: Orbital [Satellite TODAY 04-10-13] Orbital Sciences has selected ITT Exelis to manufacture, assemble, test and deliver three composite-based bus structures for its GEOStar-3 communications satellite platform. Under the contract, Exelis will also provide technical services and support. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The company has manufactured composite components for space programs such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-81217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81217"}],"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=81217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}