{"id":148288,"date":"2022-10-16T13:25:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T18:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/space-force-will-be-one-of-the-first-customers-of-a-new-gas-station-in-space"},"modified":"2022-10-16T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T18:25:21","slug":"space-force-will-be-one-of-the-first-customers-of-a-new-gas-station-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/space-force-will-be-one-of-the-first-customers-of-a-new-gas-station-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Space Force will be one of the first customers of a new gas station in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-will-be-one-of-the-first-customers-of-a-new-gas-station-in-space3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, in-space refueling company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitfab.com\/\">Orbit Fab<\/a> won a $13.3 million USSF contract to gas up geostationary (GEO) military satellites starting in 2025. Under the four-year contract, which was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-10-11\/colorado-startup-building-gas-stations-in-space-gets-13-3-million-us-contract\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>, the Colorado-based space startup will deliver hydrazine propellant to at least one Space Force satellite in GEO.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>If you build it, they will come<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Schiel, cofounder and chief development officer of Orbit Fab, says he expects the Defense Department\u2019s buy-in to boost the company\u2019s credibility on the commercial market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in-space refueling company Orbit Fab won a $13.3 million USSF contract to gas up geostationary (GEO) military satellites starting in 2025. Under the four-year contract, which was first reported by Bloomberg, the Colorado-based space startup will deliver hydrazine propellant to at least one Space Force satellite in GEO. If you build it, they [\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-148288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148288","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=148288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}