{"id":86549,"date":"2010-08-03T00:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-selected-as-prime-contractor-for-nasa-small-rocket-program\/"},"modified":"2010-08-03T00:19:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:19:56","slug":"orbital-selected-as-prime-contractor-for-nasa-small-rocket-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-selected-as-prime-contractor-for-nasa-small-rocket-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Selected As Prime Contractor for NASA Small Rocket Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-02-10] <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong> has been selected by <strong>NASA<\/strong> as the prime contractor under the Sounding Rocket Operations Contract 2 (NSROC 2) program, the company announced July 30. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The 2 contract carries a maximum total value of $310 million over a five-year term, with a current expected value of at least $125 million. Orbital\u2019s technical services division will be responsible for planning, coordinating and carrying out sounding rocket missions from locations in the United States and around the world. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To support the program, Orbital is developing a launch site project with NASA and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport to prepare the Wallops, Va., flight facility to accommodate final assembly and launch operations for the company\u2019s Taurus 2 medium-class space launch vehicle and Cygnus cargo logistics spacecraft for missions to the International Space Station. Initial launches are scheduled to begin in 2011.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sounding rockets are smaller-sized launch vehicles that conduct suborbital missions for high-altitude scientific and atmospheric research. Orbital served as a contract partner on NASA\u2019s NSROC 1 team from 1999 to 2009. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-02-10] Orbital Sciences has been selected by NASA as the prime contractor under the Sounding Rocket Operations Contract 2 (NSROC 2) program, the company announced July 30. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The 2 contract carries a maximum total value of $310 million over a five-year term, with a current expected value of at least $125 million. Orbital\u2019s technical [&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-86549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86549"}],"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=86549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}