{"id":83118,"date":"2012-05-11T21:58:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/atk-unveils-liberty-crew-system-selects-lockheed-to-join-development-team\/"},"modified":"2012-05-11T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T13:58:58","slug":"atk-unveils-liberty-crew-system-selects-lockheed-to-join-development-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/atk-unveils-liberty-crew-system-selects-lockheed-to-join-development-team\/","title":{"rendered":"ATK Unveils Liberty Crew System, Selects Lockheed to Join Development Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-11-12] <b>ATK<\/b> has selected <b>Lockheed Martin<\/b> as a major subcontractor on the ATK and <b>Astrium<\/b>-led Liberty commercial crew transportation team and has developed the vehicle into a complete manned system, the company confirmed May 10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;ATK designed Liberty to meet NASA\u2019s human-rating requirements with a potential for a first test flight in 2014 and a crewed flight in 2015. The program\u2019s current schedule supports crewed missions for NASA and other potential customers by 2016, with a price-per-seat that is projected to be lower than the cost on the Russian Soyuz rocket.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Liberty\u2019s configuration includes a solid first stage and liquid second stage engine to lower the likelihood of failure and enable a flight path with total abort coverage in the event of an anomaly. The Liberty spacecraft leverages design work performed at NASA Langley Research Center on the composite crew module and launch abort system, for which ATK was a contractor.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cLiberty will give the U.S. a new launch capability with a robust business case and a schedule that we expect will have us flying crews in just three years, ending our dependence on Russia,\u201d ATK Vice President and Liberty Program Manager Kent Rominger said in a statement. \u201cThis program is changing the way we do business and can also result in a positive change to government programs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-11-12] ATK has selected Lockheed Martin as a major subcontractor on the ATK and Astrium-led Liberty commercial crew transportation team and has developed the vehicle into a complete manned system, the company confirmed May 10. &nbsp; &nbsp;ATK designed Liberty to meet NASA\u2019s human-rating requirements with a potential for a first test flight in 2014 and [&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-83118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83118"}],"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=83118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}