{"id":117954,"date":"2021-01-02T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/spacex-wins-150-million-contract-to-launch-space-development-agency-satellites"},"modified":"2021-01-02T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:22:18","slug":"spacex-wins-150-million-contract-to-launch-space-development-agency-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/spacex-wins-150-million-contract-to-launch-space-development-agency-satellites","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX wins $150 million contract to launch Space Development Agency satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-wins-150-million-contract-to-launch-space-development-agency-satellites3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX has been awarded a $150.4 million contract to launch as many as 28 satellites for the Pentagon\u2019s space agency, the Defense Department announced Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is to launch a mix of small and medium spacecraft of different sizes that the Space Development Agency is acquiring from multiple vendors. That includes 20 data-relay satellites known as the Transport Layer and the other eight are missile-warning satellites known as the Tracking Layer.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch these satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX has been awarded a $150.4 million contract to launch as many as 28 satellites for the Pentagon\u2019s space agency, the Defense Department announced Dec. 31. The contract is to launch a mix of small and medium spacecraft of different sizes that the Space Development Agency is acquiring from multiple vendors. That includes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117954","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=117954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}