{"id":18668,"date":"2018-01-22T21:05:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kepler-communications-first-satellite-expands-internet-of-things-to-space\/"},"modified":"2018-01-22T21:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T13:05:58","slug":"kepler-communications-first-satellite-expands-internet-of-things-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kepler-communications-first-satellite-expands-internet-of-things-to-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Kepler Communications\u2019 first satellite expands \u2018Internet of Things\u2019 to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> Toronto-based Kepler Communications says its first Ku-band telecommunications satellite is in working order after a Jan. 19 launch from China\u2019s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Kipp nanosatellite, which is about the size of a loaf of bread, was one of six spacecraft delivered to orbit by a Long March 11 rocket. It\u2019s designed to demonstrate technologies for providing in-space connectivity between spacecraft&nbsp;\u2014 and potentially for networks of connected devices on Earth, also known as the Internet of Things. \u201cAs the need for connectivity increases, we increase our constellation in tandem,\u201d Kepler CEO Mina Mitry said today in a news release. Kepler graduated from the Techstars Seattle startup incubator in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"China's Long March-11 carrier rocket sends six satellites into space\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fe93A-RsmnY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: Toronto-based Kepler Communications says its first Ku-band telecommunications satellite is in working order after a Jan. 19 launch from China\u2019s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Kipp nanosatellite, which is about the size of a loaf of bread, was one of six spacecraft delivered to orbit by a Long March 11 rocket. It\u2019s designed [&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":[135,1294,51,585,20],"class_list":["post-18668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-internet-of-things","tag-iot","tag-kepler-communications","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18668"}],"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=18668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}