{"id":76916,"date":"2018-03-14T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/air-force-awards-big-launch-contracts-to-spacex-and-ula"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:43:34","slug":"air-force-awards-big-launch-contracts-to-spacex-and-ula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/air-force-awards-big-launch-contracts-to-spacex-and-ula","title":{"rendered":"Air Force awards big launch contracts to SpaceX and ULA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-force-awards-big-launch-contracts-to-spacex-and-ula2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Air Force on Wednesday awarded two major launch contracts to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program, SpaceX received a $290 million firm-fixed-price contract for three GPS 3 missions. ULA was awarded a $351 million firm-fixed-price deal for Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)-8 and AFSPC-12 satellites launches.<\/p>\n<p>The contracts include launch vehicle production, mission integration, launch operations and spaceflight certification. The missions will be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or Kennedy Space Center, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spacenews.com\/air-force-awards-big-launch-contracts-to-spacex-and-ula\/\">http:\/\/spacenews.com\/air-force-awards-big-launch-contracts-to-spacex-and-ula\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Air Force on Wednesday awarded two major launch contracts to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance. Under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program, SpaceX received a $290 million firm-fixed-price contract for three GPS 3 missions. ULA was awarded a $351 million firm-fixed-price deal for Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)-8 and AFSPC-12 satellites [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76916","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=76916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}