{"id":53121,"date":"2023-07-11T22:53:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T14:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/diu-contracts-muon-space-to-evaluate-satellite-weather-data\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T22:53:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T14:53:47","slug":"diu-contracts-muon-space-to-evaluate-satellite-weather-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/diu-contracts-muon-space-to-evaluate-satellite-weather-data\/","title":{"rendered":"DIU Contracts Muon Space to Evaluate Satellite Weather Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muon Space<\/strong> has been awarded an option to the company\u2019s contract with Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLMC) to collect ionospheric data on the MuSat-2 satellite mission.&nbsp; Under this contract option, the<strong> Department of Defense<\/strong> (DoD) will evaluate the commercial data from Muon Space\u2019s MuSat-2 satellite to use in weather forecasting, ionospheric modeling, impact applications, and climate change assessments<\/p>\n<p>Muon Space announced the deal on July 11. It is with the AFLMC\u2019s Weather Systems Branch and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). The performance period is two years extending through September 2024. This is an optional expansion from the company\u2019s awarded in September 2022 to develop a space-based prototype for global weather sensing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuon Space is honored by the Air Force, Space Force and DIU\u2019s belief in our capabilities to bring new insights to DoD weather and ionospheric models with new data to include soil moisture, ocean winds, and total electron content.&nbsp; We\u2019re excited to showcase the operational relevance of this commercial space dataset to the DoD,\u201d said Muon Space CEO Jonny Dyer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Muon Space recently launched its first satellite, MuSat-1, on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-8 mission in June. It is the first in the company\u2019s plan to launch a constellation to collect climate data. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muon Space has been awarded an option to the company\u2019s contract with Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLMC) to collect ionospheric data on the MuSat-2 satellite mission.&nbsp; Under this contract option, the Department of Defense (DoD) will evaluate the commercial data from Muon Space\u2019s MuSat-2 satellite to use in weather forecasting, ionospheric modeling, impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52038,"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-53121","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\/53121"}],"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=53121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}