{"id":51031,"date":"2024-06-28T20:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T12:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/cnes-selects-infinite-orbits-to-lead-2-geo-servicing-missions\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T20:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T12:03:40","slug":"cnes-selects-infinite-orbits-to-lead-2-geo-servicing-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/cnes-selects-infinite-orbits-to-lead-2-geo-servicing-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"CNES Selects Infinite Orbits to Lead 2 GEO Servicing Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>French space agency <b>CNES <\/b>has selected a consortium led by <b>Infinite Orbits<\/b>, with <b>Telespazio France<\/b>, to conduct two satellite servicing missions in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). CNES ordered a life extension mission and an inspection mission, both funded by the French government under the \u201cFrance 2030\u201d economic incentive plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Infinite Orbits said in a recent press release the first mission will use its Endurance vehicle, a 750 kg docking servicer. Endurance will perform a docking on an active end-of-life commercial telecommunication satellite, provide station-keeping for 5 years and manage its end-of-life disposal in the graveyard orbit.<\/p>\n<p>In the second mission, a smaller, 50 kg Orbit Guard servicer, equipped with electric propulsion will demonstrate a proximity inspection of Meteosat 8, a non-operational EUMETSAT satellite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Infinite Orbits, based in Toulouse, France, recently raised 12 million euros ($12.9 million) in its first financing round. Earlier this year, the company also signed a deal with Hispasat for a GEO life extension mission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French space agency CNES has selected a consortium led by Infinite Orbits, with Telespazio France, to conduct two satellite servicing missions in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). CNES ordered a life extension mission and an inspection mission, both funded by the French government under the \u201cFrance 2030\u201d economic incentive plan.&nbsp; Infinite Orbits said in a recent press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51032,"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":[],"class_list":["post-51031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51031"}],"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=51031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}