{"id":51179,"date":"2024-05-31T17:12:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/scout-spaces-sparrow-payload-captures-first-calibration-image\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:12:27","slug":"scout-spaces-sparrow-payload-captures-first-calibration-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/scout-spaces-sparrow-payload-captures-first-calibration-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Scout Space\u2019s Sparrow Payload Captures first Calibration Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>In-space security observation service provider<strong> Scout Space<\/strong> commissioned and captured the first in-space calibration image from its recently launched \u201cSparrow\u201d optical payload, the company announced Thursday. SpaceX launched Scout\u2019s Sparrow \u2013 the company\u2019s second optical payload \u2013 aboard the Apex Aries bus on the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The successful image capture took place at 6:25 GMT on Thursday, May 30, 2024. Scout said that the Sparrow will continue to collect high-resolution in-space data for undisclosed customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to report the successful deployment and operation of our second optical sensor payload in orbit, which captured its first imagery today,\u201d Philip Hover-Smoot, CEO of Scout Space, said in the announcement. \u201cWith each successful launch, we move closer to achieving Scout\u2019s vision of enhancing Space Domain Awareness through the proliferation of secure, platform-agnostic sensing solutions. This achievement underscores the dedication of both the Scout team and the Apex team, reflecting our shared commitment to advancing space technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scout Space designed Sparrow to provide valuable in-space data on the space environment and increasingly complex on-orbit operations for government and commercial partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In-space security observation service provider Scout Space commissioned and captured the first in-space calibration image from its recently launched \u201cSparrow\u201d optical payload, the company announced Thursday. SpaceX launched Scout\u2019s Sparrow \u2013 the company\u2019s second optical payload \u2013 aboard the Apex Aries bus on the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission in March 2024. The successful image capture took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51180,"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-51179","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\/51179"}],"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=51179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}