{"id":53521,"date":"2023-05-01T21:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-forge-to-explore-satellite-return-capabilities-with-southern-launch-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T21:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:01:43","slug":"space-forge-to-explore-satellite-return-capabilities-with-southern-launch-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-forge-to-explore-satellite-return-capabilities-with-southern-launch-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Forge to Explore Satellite Return Capabilities With Southern Launch in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Welsh space company <strong>Space Forge<\/strong> has a new MoU with Australia\u2019s <strong>Southern Launch<\/strong> to explore potential satellite return technologies at Southern Launch\u2019s Koonibba Test Range, the companies announced Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Space Forge is working to develop technologies to manufacture super materials in space, and return the materials to Earth with the ForgeStar re-entry satellite. Space Forge unfortunately lost its demonstration satellite on the Virgin Orbit United Kingdom mission, but plans to test its re-entry capabilities with the ForgeStar-1A satellite later this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Koonibba Test Range in the South Australia province is a commercial rocket testing facility in line with Sun-Synchronous Orbits (SSO), making it an \u201cideal\u201d test location for Space Forge, the companies said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The companies hope to announce a joint mission by the end of the year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpace Forge will be looking to refurbish and launch their satellites as close as possible to the re-entry point. Our Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex is the natural solution for a launch site, and we will be exploring this option with Space Forge throughout the MoU process. Our hope is to provide a complete solution for Space Forge which creates further opportunities for the wider industry,\u201d commented Southern Launch CEO Lloyd Damp.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh space company Space Forge has a new MoU with Australia\u2019s Southern Launch to explore potential satellite return technologies at Southern Launch\u2019s Koonibba Test Range, the companies announced Monday.&nbsp; Space Forge is working to develop technologies to manufacture super materials in space, and return the materials to Earth with the ForgeStar re-entry satellite. Space Forge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53522,"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-53521","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\/53521"}],"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=53521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}