{"id":180171,"date":"2024-01-09T20:29:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/space-development-agency-confirms-rocket-lab-will-produce-18-satellites-for-u-s-military-network"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:29:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:29:22","slug":"space-development-agency-confirms-rocket-lab-will-produce-18-satellites-for-u-s-military-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/space-development-agency-confirms-rocket-lab-will-produce-18-satellites-for-u-s-military-network","title":{"rendered":"Space Development Agency confirms Rocket Lab will produce 18 satellites for U.S. military network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-development-agency-confirms-rocket-lab-will-produce-18-satellites-for-u-s-military-network2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Development Agency confirmed on Jan. 8 that it awarded Rocket Lab a $515 million contract to build and operate 18 spacecraft that will be part of a low Earth orbit network of military satellites.<\/p>\n<p><em>SpaceNews<\/em> first reported on this <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/rocket-lab-wins-515-million-contract-to-build-18-satellites-for-u-s-government-agency\/\">contract award on Dec. 23<\/a> after the agreement was disclosed in a regulatory filing.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab becomes the third supplier of SDA\u2019s Transport Layer Tranche 2 Beta satellites \u2014 projected to launch in mid-2027 \u2014 that will carry radios using the UHF (Ultra High Frequency) and S-band frequencies that military and intelligence units rely upon for voice and low-speed data transmissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Development Agency confirmed on Jan. 8 that it awarded Rocket Lab a $515 million contract to build and operate 18 spacecraft that will be part of a low Earth orbit network of military satellites. SpaceNews first reported on this contract award on Dec. 23 after the agreement was disclosed in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180171","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}