{"id":83098,"date":"2012-05-16T20:49:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/air-force-opens-wallet-for-two-ula-launches\/"},"modified":"2012-05-16T20:49:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:49:03","slug":"air-force-opens-wallet-for-two-ula-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/air-force-opens-wallet-for-two-ula-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Opens Wallet for Two ULA Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-16-12] The <b>U.S. Air Force<\/b> will pay <b>United Launch Alliance (ULA)<\/b> $398 million to launch two satellites by late 2014, the <b>U.S. Department of Defense<\/b> confirmed May 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The contract was awarded to ULA\u2019s subsidiary, United Launch Services.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;ULA is contracted to put the Air Force\u2019s Mobile User Objective System-4 (MUOS-4) satellite in orbit aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, and to launch a global positioning system satellite aboard a Delta 4 rocket. The rockets will be developed at ULA\u2019s assembly plant in Decatur, Ala.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;ULA, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, is the primary rocket launch company for federal government satellites and space probes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-16-12] The U.S. Air Force will pay United Launch Alliance (ULA) $398 million to launch two satellites by late 2014, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed May 14. &nbsp; &nbsp;The contract was awarded to ULA\u2019s subsidiary, United Launch Services. &nbsp; &nbsp;ULA is contracted to put the Air Force\u2019s Mobile User Objective System-4 (MUOS-4) satellite in [&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-83098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83098"}],"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=83098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}