{"id":18221,"date":"2018-12-19T20:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spaceflight-signs-up-brazil-for-amazonia-1-satellite-launch-on-indian-rocket-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:19:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:19:15","slug":"spaceflight-signs-up-brazil-for-amazonia-1-satellite-launch-on-indian-rocket-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spaceflight-signs-up-brazil-for-amazonia-1-satellite-launch-on-indian-rocket-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight signs up Brazil for Amazonia-1 satellite launch on Indian rocket in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An artist\u2019s conception shows the Amazonia-1 satellite. (INPE Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seattle-based Spaceflight says it\u2019s struck one of its biggest deals for a satellite launch with Brazil\u2019s space research institute, focusing on putting the Amazonia-1 satellite into low Earth orbit in mid-2020.<\/p>\n

The contract was awarded on Tuesday during a ceremony in S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, attended by Brazilian space officials as well as Melissa Wuerl, Spaceflight\u2019s vice president of business development.<\/p>\n

Amazonia-1 is designed to make observations of Brazilian territory, with a special focus on the Amazon region, for the National Institute for Space Research, known in Portuguese as the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais or INPE.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first Earth observation satellite to be completely designed, integrated, tested and operated by Brazil.<\/p>\n

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Amazonia-1 is the first Earth observation satellite based on the Brazilian Multi Mission Platform. (Spaceflight Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With a mass of about 700 kilograms (1,540 pounds), Amazonia-1 will also be the largest single spacecraft to be launched with Spaceflight\u2019s logistical assistance, and the primary payload on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, or PSLV.<\/p>\n

The satellite will be put into a nearly pole-to-pole orbit with a mean altitude of 760 kilometers (472 miles). Secondary rideshare payloads will be deployed at a lower altitude, Spaceflight said.<\/p>\n

Spaceflight is the launch services subsidiary of Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries. It arranged for the launch of several secondary payloads aboard a PSLV rocket last month. And this month, it rounded up 64 satellites for launch aboard a dedicated SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n

Other launch vehicles on Spaceflight\u2019s menu include Northrop Grumman\u2019s Antares, Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron and Arianespace\u2019s Vega.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe excel at complex launch missions like this, and it\u2019s an honor to take INPE\u2019s first Amazonia satellite to space,\u201d Wuerl said in a news release. \u201cOur goal continues to be to provide the most rideshare options for customers to get their spacecraft into orbit \u2014 which ultimately benefits everyone on board.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the competitive procurement process for the Amazonia-1 launch contract, Spaceflight was supported in Brazil by a representative of the Akaer Group, a technology solutions company headquartered in S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos.<\/p>\n

Financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An artist\u2019s conception shows the Amazonia-1 satellite. (INPE Illustration) Seattle-based Spaceflight says it\u2019s struck one of its biggest deals for a satellite launch with Brazil\u2019s space research institute, focusing on putting the Amazonia-1 satellite into low Earth orbit in mid-2020. The contract was awarded on Tuesday during a ceremony in S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos, attended by […]<\/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":[5101,1819,291,20,2340,2341],"class_list":["post-18221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazonia-1","tag-brazil","tag-commercial-space","tag-satellite","tag-spaceflight","tag-spaceflight-industries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221"}],"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=18221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}