{"id":55069,"date":"2022-07-11T18:43:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nanoracks-confirms-follow-up-bishop-airlock-mission-with-japans-gitai\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T18:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:43:52","slug":"nanoracks-confirms-follow-up-bishop-airlock-mission-with-japans-gitai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nanoracks-confirms-follow-up-bishop-airlock-mission-with-japans-gitai\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanoracks Confirms Follow-Up Bishop Airlock Mission with Japan\u2019s Gitai"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nanoracks<\/strong> confirmed Monday that it will conduct a second Bishop Airlock mission with Japanese space robotics startup <strong>Gitai<\/strong>. A follow-up to the companies\u2019 successful Bishop Airlock demonstration in 2021, the second mission will involve demonstrating \u201cS2,\u201d Gitai\u2019s 1.5 meter-class dexterous robotic system.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Airlock was the first permanent, commercial platform added to the International Space Station when it was launched in December 2020.&nbsp; Nanoracks, whose parent company X.O. Markets is now owned by Voyager Space, said its second Bishop Airlock mission will demonstrate an expansion of the capabilities it demonstrated with Gitai last year, such as In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM). The mission will utilize a full open-close cycle of the Bishop Airlock.<\/p>\n<p>Nanoracks added that the demonstration will be key in exhibiting how commercial activities could be conducted on Starlab, Nanoracks\u2019 and Voyager Space\u2019s planned continuously crewed, free-flying commercial space station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis mission is a key stepping-stone towards commercialization of LEO enabling both government and private sectors to obtain robust and high-performance robotics in space,\u201d said Dr. Amela Wilson, CEO of Nanoracks. \u201cMissions like this allow the Nanoracks team to test and execute on space station operations that will be critical for customer success on Starlab.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanoracks confirmed Monday that it will conduct a second Bishop Airlock mission with Japanese space robotics startup Gitai. A follow-up to the companies\u2019 successful Bishop Airlock demonstration in 2021, the second mission will involve demonstrating \u201cS2,\u201d Gitai\u2019s 1.5 meter-class dexterous robotic system. Bishop Airlock was the first permanent, commercial platform added to the International Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55070,"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-55069","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\/55069"}],"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=55069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}