{"id":82100,"date":"2012-11-13T00:19:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-sciences-to-develop-payload-delivery-system-for-u-s-air-force\/"},"modified":"2012-11-13T00:19:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:19:36","slug":"orbital-sciences-to-develop-payload-delivery-system-for-u-s-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-sciences-to-develop-payload-delivery-system-for-u-s-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Sciences to Develop Payload Delivery System for U.S. Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a $34 million contract to Orbital Sciences to develop an ESPA Augmented Geostationary Laboratory Equipment (EAGLE) system for small payloads functioning at geostationary orbit, Orbital Sciences announced. <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The EAGLE spacecraft platform is based on the evolved expendable launch vehicle\u2019s secondary payload adaptor (ESPA), which carries and deploys small rideshare satellites from United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 4 or Atlas 5 rockets.    EAGLE aims to propel satellites or experiments to geosynchronous orbit from a transfer orbit, and keep the payloads attached and in correct position for up to a year. Orbital Sciences said the platform also could serve the same function in low Earth orbit (LEO), to where most small payloads have been launched. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded a $34 million contract to Orbital Sciences to develop an ESPA Augmented Geostationary Laboratory Equipment (EAGLE) system for small payloads functioning at geostationary orbit, Orbital Sciences announced. &nbsp; &nbsp;The EAGLE spacecraft platform is based on the evolved expendable launch vehicle\u2019s secondary payload adaptor (ESPA), which carries [&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-82100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82100"}],"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=82100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}