{"id":86181,"date":"2010-09-20T19:21:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T11:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-selects-lockheed-atk-athena-rocket-for-launch-services-2-contract\/"},"modified":"2010-09-20T19:21:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T11:21:18","slug":"nasa-selects-lockheed-atk-athena-rocket-for-launch-services-2-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-selects-lockheed-atk-athena-rocket-for-launch-services-2-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Selects Lockheed, ATK Athena Rocket for Launch Services 2 Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[09-20-10] The <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> and <strong>Alliant Techsystems<\/strong> (ATK) Athena Launch Vehicle Family has been selected by <strong>NASA<\/strong> to become part of the agency\u2019s Launch Services 2 contract.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract will see the rockets launched from U.S.-based sites, such as Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., and Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska. The Athena launch vehicles will fulfill NASA\u2019s requirements for domestic launch services with a minimum performance capability of placing a 250-kilogram spacecraft in a 200-kilometer low Earth orbit (LEO) at an inclination of 28.5 degrees. Athena utilizes a large volume 92-inch diameter payload fairing to accommodate a wide range of satellites and missions as well as lunar missions.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The NASA contract follows a strategic agreement between Lockheed Martin and ATK signed in March to offer launch services utilizing upgraded and modernized Athena rockets.&nbsp; Lockheed Martin will provide mission management, payload integration, and launch operations, while ATK will provide integrated vehicle propulsion, launch vehicle structures, booster integration and launch site operations.<br \/>\nFinancial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[09-20-10] The Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) Athena Launch Vehicle Family has been selected by NASA to become part of the agency\u2019s Launch Services 2 contract. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The contract will see the rockets launched from U.S.-based sites, such as Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., and Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska. The Athena launch vehicles [&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-86181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86181"}],"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=86181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}