{"id":112836,"date":"2020-09-10T08:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/northrop-grumman-to-terminate-omega-rocket-program"},"modified":"2020-09-10T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:23:19","slug":"northrop-grumman-to-terminate-omega-rocket-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/northrop-grumman-to-terminate-omega-rocket-program","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman to terminate OmegA rocket program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/northrop-grumman-to-terminate-omega-rocket-program2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Northrop Grumman announced it will not move forward with the development of the OmegA rocket. The vehicle was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiul4Hb-NzrAhXjlHIEHR_TBuwQFjABegQICRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fspacenews.com%2Fnorthrop-grumman-weighing-exit-options-for-omega-rocket%2F&usg=AOvVaw2jtv-FUvk61CogsuPYz1nk\">designed for the sole purpose<\/a> of competing for a National Security Space Launch contract award but didn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have chosen not to continue development of the OmegA launch system at this time,\u201d Northrop Grumman spokeswoman Jennifer Bowman said in a statement. \u201cWe look forward to continuing to play a key role in National Security Space Launch missions and leveraging our OmegA investments in other activities across our business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowman said the company will not be protesting the U.S. Space Force\u2019s decision to select United Launch Alliance and SpaceX for the NSSL contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Northrop Grumman announced it will not move forward with the development of the OmegA rocket. The vehicle was designed for the sole purpose of competing for a National Security Space Launch contract award but didn\u2019t make the cut. \u201cWe have chosen not to continue development of the OmegA launch system at this time,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1492,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-security","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}