{"id":17736,"date":"2020-04-22T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/swarm-technologies-chooses-momentus-and-spacex-to-launch-constellation-of-tiny-satellites\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T23:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:09:11","slug":"swarm-technologies-chooses-momentus-and-spacex-to-launch-constellation-of-tiny-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/swarm-technologies-chooses-momentus-and-spacex-to-launch-constellation-of-tiny-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarm Technologies chooses Momentus and SpaceX to launch constellation of tiny satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_560174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-560174\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-560174\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-vigoride-630x335.png\" alt=\"Vigoride spacecraft\" width=\"630\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-vigoride-630x335.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-vigoride-768x409.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/200422-vigoride.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-560174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conceptions shows Momentus\u2019 Vigoride in-space shuttle moving a payload in orbit. (Momentus Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Swarm Technologies has struck an agreement with California-based Momentus for the launch of a dozen telecommunication satellites, each the size of a slice of bread, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in December.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The December rideshare mission is the first of a series that Momentum plans to execute for Swarm, continuing into 2021 and 2022. Swarm plans to have 150 satellites launched over the next couple of years for a communication network in low Earth orbit.<\/li>\n<li>The first 12 SpaceBee satellites covered by the agreement announced today will be deployed into orbit from the Falcon 9. The inch-thick satellites fit into a 3U CubeSat deployer that\u2019s about the size of a large loaf of bread.<\/li>\n<li>Starting next year, the missions will take advantage of Momentus\u2019 Vigoride in-space shuttle, which is designed to move payloads around once they\u2019re in orbit. The Vigoride spacecraft will facilitate deployments of the satellites into their optimal positions for Swarm\u2019s constellation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conceptions shows Momentus\u2019 Vigoride in-space shuttle moving a payload in orbit. (Momentus Illustration) Swarm Technologies has struck an agreement with California-based Momentus for the launch of a dozen telecommunication satellites, each the size of a slice of bread, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in December. The December rideshare mission is the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4838,20,442,316,4839],"class_list":["post-17736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-momentus","tag-satellite","tag-satellites","tag-spacex","tag-swarm-technologies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}