{"id":85645,"date":"2010-12-17T19:33:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T11:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-passes-design-review-for-nasas-iris-program\/"},"modified":"2010-12-17T19:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T11:33:48","slug":"lockheed-martin-passes-design-review-for-nasas-iris-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-passes-design-review-for-nasas-iris-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Passes Design Review for NASA\u2019s IRIS Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-17-10] <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> has met the requirements of a critical design review for <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) small explorer mission, the prime contractor announced Dec. 16.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The IRIS spacecraft is being developed to fly in a Sun-synchronous polar orbit and provide continuous solar observations on a two-year mission for NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWith IRIS, we have a unique opportunity to provide significant missing pieces in our understanding of energy transport on the Sun. The complex processes and enormous contrasts of density, temperature and magnetic field within this interface region require instrument and modeling capabilities that are now finally within our reach,\u201d Lockheed Martin\u2019s Principal IRIS Physicist Alan Title said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract in 2009 to lead a team to design and build IRIS. Mission costs will be capped at $105 million, excluding the launch vehicle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-17-10] Lockheed Martin has met the requirements of a critical design review for NASA\u2019s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) small explorer mission, the prime contractor announced Dec. 16. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The IRIS spacecraft is being developed to fly in a Sun-synchronous polar orbit and provide continuous solar observations on a two-year mission for NASA\u2019s Goddard Space [&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-85645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85645"}],"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=85645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}