{"id":85468,"date":"2011-01-28T17:14:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-sciences-to-integrate-iridium-next-payloads-platforms\/"},"modified":"2011-01-28T17:14:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T09:14:32","slug":"orbital-sciences-to-integrate-iridium-next-payloads-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-sciences-to-integrate-iridium-next-payloads-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Sciences to Integrate Iridium Next Payloads, Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-28-11] Iridium Next prime contractor <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> awarded a systems integration and testing contract to <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong>, to integrate the low-Earth orbit constellation\u2019s communications payloads and platforms, Orbital announced Jan. 27. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All work will be completed at Orbital\u2019s headquarters location in Dulles, Va., and its systems facility in Gilbert, Ariz. Orbital said it was issued the contract because of its geographical fit with <strong>Iridium<\/strong>\u2019s satellite network operations center in Leesburg, Va., and its gateway in Tempe, Ariz.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe believe that the constellation\u2019s hosted payload concept will grow significantly in the future as government space programs look for opportunities to carry out their mission in the most cost-effective and time critical manner,\u201d Orbital Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy Michael Hamel said in a statement. \u201cWe are already seeing numerous examples of government space program customers taking advantage of the regularity of commercial satellite deployments and their demonstrated high rates of reliability. In a time of tight budgets, we see hosted payloads as great value to the customer community and intend to be at the forefront of the growth trend.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-28-11] Iridium Next prime contractor Thales Alenia Space awarded a systems integration and testing contract to Orbital Sciences, to integrate the low-Earth orbit constellation\u2019s communications payloads and platforms, Orbital announced Jan. 27. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All work will be completed at Orbital\u2019s headquarters location in Dulles, Va., and its systems facility in Gilbert, Ariz. Orbital said it [&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-85468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85468"}],"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=85468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}