{"id":18808,"date":"2017-09-11T21:24:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-tells-ssl-and-tethers-unlimited-to-move-forward-on-orbital-assembly-system\/"},"modified":"2017-09-11T21:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:24:32","slug":"nasa-tells-ssl-and-tethers-unlimited-to-move-forward-on-orbital-assembly-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-tells-ssl-and-tethers-unlimited-to-move-forward-on-orbital-assembly-system\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA tells SSL and Tethers Unlimited to move forward on orbital assembly system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California-based SSL, formerly known as Space Systems Loral, says it\u2019ll receive continued funding from NASA for an on-orbit satellite assembly program known as Dragonfly. SSL and its partners, including Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited, recently completed a successful ground demonstration of the Dragonfly system, which is designed to assemble pieces of space hardware in orbit robotically. The next step is to move forward with a detailed design for a semi-autonomous assembly system that could be sent into space sometime in the 2020s. Check out this 11-second video clip about the Dragonfly\u2019s ground test:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y6n5dRdIHVI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California-based SSL, formerly known as Space Systems Loral, says it\u2019ll receive continued funding from NASA for an on-orbit satellite assembly program known as Dragonfly. SSL and its partners, including Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited, recently completed a successful ground demonstration of the Dragonfly system, which is designed to assemble pieces of space hardware in orbit robotically. [&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":[1404,5329,20,3498,4793],"class_list":["post-18808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dragonfly","tag-firmamentum","tag-satellite","tag-ssl","tag-tethers-unlimited"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808"}],"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=18808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}