{"id":86716,"date":"2010-07-02T19:28:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T11:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-sciences-signs-two-nasa-launch-contracts\/"},"modified":"2010-07-02T19:28:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T11:28:57","slug":"orbital-sciences-signs-two-nasa-launch-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-sciences-signs-two-nasa-launch-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Sciences Signs Two NASA Launch Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-02-10] <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong> has received two separate orders from <strong>NASA<\/strong> to launch scientific satellites on the PegasusXL and Taurus XL rockets, the launch company announced July 1.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Orbital will launch NASA\u2019s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft in December 2012 aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The launch will be the second Pegasus launch scheduled for that year following the launch of the Orbital-built NuStar scientific satellite in February 2012.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a separate contract, NASA selected Orbital\u2019s Taurus XL rocket to boost the OCO-2 environmental monitoring satellite into orbit in early 2013. The satellite, also built by Orbital Sciences, aims to provide space-based data on carbon dioxide in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the contracts were not disclosed. The next scheduled Taurus launch will boost the Orbital-built Glory satellite into low-Earth orbit for NASA in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">NASA Issues ISS Mission Integration Contract to  Barrios Technology<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 29, 2010<br \/>\n[06-29-10] NASA has awarded a  contract with a maximum value of $273 million to Barrios Technology for  International Space Station (ISS) mission integration services support,  the agency announced June 26. The fixed-price\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">White House Releases Key Elements of Upcoming U.S.  National Space Policy<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 28, 2010<br \/>\n[06-28-10] U.S. President  Barack Obama s new National Space Policy (NSP) will contain measures to  double the available amount of spectrum for wireless communications over  the next 10 years and establish grounds to seek international\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Orbital Sciences to Launch NASA s OCO-2 Mission<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 24, 2010<br \/>\n[06-24-10] NASA has selected  Orbital Sciences to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)  mission in February 2013 aboard a Taurus XL 3110 rocket from Vandenberg s  U.S. Air Force Base, Calif., the agency announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-02-10] Orbital Sciences has received two separate orders from NASA to launch scientific satellites on the PegasusXL and Taurus XL rockets, the launch company announced July 1. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Orbital will launch NASA\u2019s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft in December 2012 aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The launch will [&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-86716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86716"}],"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=86716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}