{"id":86254,"date":"2010-09-09T23:32:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-to-launch-geoeye-2-on-atlas-5-rocket\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T23:32:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:32:27","slug":"lockheed-martin-to-launch-geoeye-2-on-atlas-5-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-to-launch-geoeye-2-on-atlas-5-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin to Launch Geoeye-2 on Atlas 5 Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[09-09-10] <strong>GeoEye<\/strong> has contracted <strong>Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services<\/strong> to launch the GeoEye-2 Earth-imaging satellite on an Atlas 5 rocket, Lockheed Martin announced Sept 8.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, which markets the Atlas 5 to commercial customers, will launch GeoEye-2 into a sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. in late 2012. GeoEye also awarded Lockheed Martin a contract in March to build GeoEye-2. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GeoEye plans to have the satellite operating by early 2013 to support a 10-year, $3.8-billion contract it signed with the <strong>U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency<\/strong> in August for increased commercial satellite-imaging capacity. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a statement, GeoEye COO Bill Schuster said his company chose Lockheed Martin to GeoEye-2, \u201cbecause of its 50-year heritage in designing, manufacturing and launching payloads into the perfect orbit.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[09-09-10] GeoEye has contracted Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services to launch the GeoEye-2 Earth-imaging satellite on an Atlas 5 rocket, Lockheed Martin announced Sept 8. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, which markets the Atlas 5 to commercial customers, will launch GeoEye-2 into a sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. in late 2012. [&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-86254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86254"}],"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=86254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}