{"id":82733,"date":"2012-07-26T23:20:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astrotech-inks-tdrs-l-pre-launch-services-deal-with-nasa\/"},"modified":"2012-07-26T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:20:50","slug":"astrotech-inks-tdrs-l-pre-launch-services-deal-with-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astrotech-inks-tdrs-l-pre-launch-services-deal-with-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrotech Inks TDRS-L Pre-Launch Services Deal with NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-26-12] <b>NASA<\/b> has awarded a $2 million task order to <b>Astrotech Space Operations (ASO)<\/b> to provide facilities and pre-launch processing services for the launch of its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-L) scheduled for 2013, Astrotech announced July 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;NASA awarded ASO a similar task order in 2011 to provide pre-launch facilities and payload processing services for the TDRS-K spacecraft, which will launch from Cape Canaveral in December. These third-generation TDRS missions are the fourth and fifth satellites of NASA\u2019s $12.5 million overall contract with ASO.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cNASA has been successfully launching TDRS missions since 1983, however TDRS-K and -L will be the first TDRS missions processed at Astrotech,\u201d ASO General Manager Don White said in a statement. \u201cProcessing also continues at ASO for NASA\u2019s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) satellite, currently scheduled for an Aug. 23 launch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-26-12] NASA has awarded a $2 million task order to Astrotech Space Operations (ASO) to provide facilities and pre-launch processing services for the launch of its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-L) scheduled for 2013, Astrotech announced July 25. &nbsp; &nbsp;NASA awarded ASO a similar task order in 2011 to provide pre-launch facilities and payload [&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-82733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82733"}],"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=82733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}