{"id":44,"date":"2002-12-06T20:51:33","date_gmt":"2002-12-07T01:51:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2002-12-06T20:51:33","modified_gmt":"2002-12-07T01:51:33","slug":"nasa-picks-delta-ii-to-launch-medium-class-payloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"NASA PICKS DELTA II TO LAUNCH MEDIUM-CLASS PAYLOADS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     NASA has chosen the Delta II expendable launch vehicle, <br \/>\nprovided by Boeing Launch Services, Inc. to launch 19 NASA <br \/>\nand NASA-sponsored medium-class scientific payloads between <br \/>\n2006 and early 2009. Boeing Launch Services, Inc. is <br \/>\nheadquartered in Huntington Beach Calif. and is a wholly <br \/>\nowned subsidiary to The Boeing Company.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis is a firm fixed-price launch service task order awarded <br \/>\nunder the terms of the current NASA Launch Services contract <br \/>\nand has a value of $1.2 billion, if all options are <br \/>\nexercised. The contract calls for 12 firm launches with <br \/>\noptions for seven more.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis &#8220;19-Pack&#8221; acquisition will maintain an important niche <br \/>\ncapability in the domestic launch vehicle medium-performance <br \/>\nclass while assuring access to space for NASA&#8217;s highest <br \/>\npriority planetary and earth science spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>\nTwelve launches are planned from the Cape Canaveral Air <br \/>\nForce Station, Fla., and seven are planned from Vandenberg <br \/>\nAir Force Base, Calif. Seven launches are scheduled in <br \/>\ncalendar year 2006, six in calendar year 2007, two in <br \/>\ncalendar year 2008, and four in calendar year 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\nBoeing Launch Services is one of two NASA Launch services <br \/>\nproviders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has chosen the Delta II expendable launch vehicle, provided by Boeing Launch Services, Inc. to launch 19 NASA and NASA-sponsored medium-class scientific payloads between 2006 and early 2009. Boeing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}