{"id":178949,"date":"2023-12-23T17:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/rocket-lab-wins-515-million-contract-to-build-18-satellites-for-u-s-government-agency"},"modified":"2023-12-23T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T23:23:10","slug":"rocket-lab-wins-515-million-contract-to-build-18-satellites-for-u-s-government-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/rocket-lab-wins-515-million-contract-to-build-18-satellites-for-u-s-government-agency","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab wins $515 million contract to build 18 satellites for U.S. government agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-lab-wins-515-million-contract-to-build-18-satellites-for-u-s-government-agency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Space launch provider and satellite manufacturer Rocket Lab has secured a deal worth over half a billion dollars to build 18 satellites for a U.S. government agency.<\/p>\n<p>As disclosed in an SEC regulatory filing Dec. 21, Rocket Lab National Security will \u201cdesign, manufacture, deliver and operate 18 space vehicles\u201d as part of a U.S. government contract valued at $515 million. A spokesperson said the company could not provide further details.<\/p>\n<p>Sources indicate that the customer is likely the Space Development Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Space launch provider and satellite manufacturer Rocket Lab has secured a deal worth over half a billion dollars to build 18 satellites for a U.S. government agency. As disclosed in an SEC regulatory filing Dec. 21, Rocket Lab National Security will \u201cdesign, manufacture, deliver and operate 18 space vehicles\u201d as part of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,2028,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-satellites","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178949","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=178949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}