{"id":86518,"date":"2010-08-07T01:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ball-aerospace-ships-air-force-satellite-to-alaskan-launch-facility\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T01:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:50:47","slug":"ball-aerospace-ships-air-force-satellite-to-alaskan-launch-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ball-aerospace-ships-air-force-satellite-to-alaskan-launch-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Aerospace Ships Air Force Satellite to Alaskan Launch Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-06-10] <strong>Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp.<\/strong> has shipped the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>\u2019s STPSat-2 satellite to the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska for its scheduled launch on an Orbital Sciences Minotaur 4 rocket this fall, the manufacturer announced Aug. 5.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; STPSat-2\u2019s mission is to support the military\u2019s operationally responsive space strategy to ensure U.S. space superiority. The satellite, the first spacecraft for the U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program Standard Interface Vehicle program, provides a standard interface compatible for multiple launch vehicles that support a variety of experimental and risk-reduction payloads at different low-Earth orbits. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cSTPSat-2 is putting responsive space into practice for the U.S. Air Force,&#8221; Ball Aerospace President David Taylor said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ball is continuing work on a second STP-SIV, STPSat-3 \u2014 an identical spacecraft that will host four experimental military payloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-06-10] Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp. has shipped the U.S. Air Force\u2019s STPSat-2 satellite to the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska for its scheduled launch on an Orbital Sciences Minotaur 4 rocket this fall, the manufacturer announced Aug. 5. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; STPSat-2\u2019s mission is to support the military\u2019s operationally responsive space strategy to ensure U.S. 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-86518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86518"}],"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=86518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}