{"id":87038,"date":"2010-04-30T22:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-signs-95-million-nrl-support-services-contract\/"},"modified":"2010-04-30T22:50:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T14:50:27","slug":"orbital-signs-95-million-nrl-support-services-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-signs-95-million-nrl-support-services-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Signs $95 Million NRL Support Services Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">[04-30-10] <strong>Orbital Sciences Corp.<\/strong> has been awarded a $95 million, five-year contract by the <strong>U.S. Naval Research Laboratory<\/strong> (NRL) to conduct prototype spacecraft and airborne system and subsystem research, analysis and development, and integration, testing, and data processing and documentation activities, Orbital announced April 29.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The services aim to support future NRL science and research missions. Orbital has previously supported NRL aerospace programs such as TacSat, WindSat and several other scientific research projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThis new contract marks the fourth time over the past 23 years that NRL has chosen Orbital as a supplier of technical support services,&#8221; Orbital Vice President of Technical Services John Pullen said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">\n<b class=\"titlelink\" style=\"font-size: 12px; \">Australian Military Expands Intelsat 22 UHF Deal<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Satellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;April 29, 2010<br \/>\n[04-29-10] The Australian Defense Force (ADF) exercised its contract option with Intelsat to purchase the remainder of the specialized UHF communications payload on the Intelsat 22 satellite, the operator announced April 28.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\" style=\"font-size: 12px; \">Hughes Wins Avanti Ka-Band Satellite Services Deal<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Satellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;April 28, 2010<br \/>\n[04-28-10] Hughes Network Systems signed an $18 million, multi-year agreement to supply Avanti Communications Group with advanced Ka-band networking infrastructure for Avanti s Hylas 2 satellite, Hughes announced April 27.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\" style=\"font-size: 12px; \">Orbital Launches Minotaur 4 After Weather Delays<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Satellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;April 26, 2010<br \/>\n[04-26-10] Orbital Sciences launched its Minotaur 4 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., April 22, the company announced.&nbsp;<br type=\"_moz\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-30-10] Orbital Sciences Corp. has been awarded a $95 million, five-year contract by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to conduct prototype spacecraft and airborne system and subsystem research, analysis and development, and integration, testing, and data processing and documentation activities, Orbital announced April 29. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The services aim to support future NRL science and [&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-87038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87038"}],"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=87038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}