{"id":4974,"date":"2025-07-23T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/seops-integrates-epic-athena-on-upcoming-tracers-mission-with-spacex\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:52:14","slug":"seops-integrates-epic-athena-on-upcoming-tracers-mission-with-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/seops-integrates-epic-athena-on-upcoming-tracers-mission-with-spacex\/","title":{"rendered":"SEOPS Integrates EPIC Athena on Upcoming TRACERS Mission with SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SEOPS<\/p>\n

SEOPS<\/strong>, a leading provider of responsive launch and space mission services, announced it is providing the capacity, mission management and integration services for EPIC Athena, a 110 kg pathfinder spacecraft funded by NASA<\/strong>, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)<\/strong>, and the Department of Defense\u2019s U.S. Space Force (USSF)<\/strong>\u2019s Space Systems Command (SSC)<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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EPIC Athena represents the fifth of six spacecraft to launch under the Rideshare 2024-Blaze contract between SEOPS and the USSF\u2019s SSC. As a secondary rideshare payload on NASA\u2019s upcoming TRACERS mission, EPIC Athena is a Department of Defense (DOD) Space Test Program mission containing a DOD experiment. The spacecraft is slated to launch on a SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon 9 later this month from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always a privilege to work with the federal government on missions, and this one was particularly rewarding because of its goal to advance rapid response capabilities,\u201d<\/em> said <\/strong>Chad Brinkley<\/strong>, chief executive officer of SEOPS<\/strong>. \u201cIt\u2019s in our wheelhouse and aligned with our goals of providing space access without compromise to organizations around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mission is a technology pathfinder of NovaWurks<\/strong>\u2019 Hyper-Integrated Satlet (HISat) disaggregated satellite platform for making critical Earth science sensing measurements. Equally important is the goal to prove out technical partnerships and processes between multiple federal agencies to create a simple, rapid and highly integrated bus-payload system as a more affordable way to launch missions on a reduced schedule. NovaWurks designs, manufactures and operates satellites based on the HISats architecture, or SLEGO, at its production and engineering facilities in Southern California.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of promise riding on this spacecraft\u2019s shoulders,\u201d<\/em> said <\/strong>Dr. Roberta Ewart<\/strong>, chief technology officer for the SSC<\/strong>. \u201cNASA, the Space Force and NOAA have strategically aligned efforts to gain wisdom from the EPIC Athena Sensorcraft, from demonstrating key capabilities to spearheading efficiencies and new ways of collaborating across the federal government, all while creating a transformational advantage for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

SEOPS has provided integration and mission services for more than 400 satellite deployments, including for the U.S. Space Force, NRO, and NASA, as well as commercial organizations around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEOPS, a leading provider of responsive launch and space mission services, announced it is providing the capacity, mission management and integration services for EPIC Athena, a 110 kg pathfinder spacecraft funded by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Department of Defense\u2019s U.S. Space Force (USSF)\u2019s Space Systems Command (SSC).  Also Read: […]<\/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":[41,26,25,20],"class_list":["post-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-defense","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974"}],"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=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}