{"id":87686,"date":"2010-01-06T21:27:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T09:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-wins-wgs-4-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:45:15","slug":"ula-wins-wgs-4-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-wins-wgs-4-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Wins WGS-4 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-06-10] <strong>The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center<\/strong> has contracted <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) to launch the Wideband Global Satcom-4 (WGS-4) satellite, ULA announced Jan. 4.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ULA will launch WGS-4 aboard a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., between December 2011 and February 2012,<br \/>\nWGS-4 will be the fourth satellite of the WGS system and the first in the Air Force\u2019s Block 2 series. Its mission is to provide additional information broadcast capabilities and enhanced communications to U.S. military troops for the next decade. WGS-4 will join the the WGS-1, -2 and -3 satellites launched October 2007, April 2009 and December, respectively. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the award were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-06-10] The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has contracted United Launch Alliance (ULA) to launch the Wideband Global Satcom-4 (WGS-4) satellite, ULA announced Jan. 4. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ULA will launch WGS-4 aboard a Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., between December 2011 and February 2012, WGS-4 will be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-87686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87686"}],"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=87686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87874,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87686\/revisions\/87874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}