{"id":89350,"date":"2019-04-09T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/blue-origin-urging-air-force-to-postpone-launch-competition"},"modified":"2019-04-09T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:03:16","slug":"blue-origin-urging-air-force-to-postpone-launch-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/blue-origin-urging-air-force-to-postpone-launch-competition","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin urging Air Force to postpone launch competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-origin-urging-air-force-to-postpone-launch-competition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 Blue Origin wants the U.S. Air Force to wait until 2021 before picking the two companies it intends use for launching critical military satellites in the decade ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force, however, aims to solicit proposals this spring and choose its two preferred launch providers in 2020 \u2014 perhaps a year or more before the new rockets that the Air Force is fostering at Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman make their first flights.<\/p>\n<p>All three companies were chosen in October by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to share $2.3 billion in so-called Launch Service Agreement (LSA) funding to support development of next-generation rockets capable of meeting the military\u2019s satellite launch needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/blue-origin-urging-air-force-to-postpone-launch-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2014 Blue Origin wants the U.S. Air Force to wait until 2021 before picking the two companies it intends use for launching critical military satellites in the decade ahead. The Air Force, however, aims to solicit proposals this spring and choose its two preferred launch providers in 2020 \u2014 perhaps a year or [\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-89350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89350","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=89350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}