{"id":56624,"date":"2021-09-21T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spaceflight-signs-slew-of-launch-customers-and-ground-station-deal\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:29:17","slug":"spaceflight-signs-slew-of-launch-customers-and-ground-station-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spaceflight-signs-slew-of-launch-customers-and-ground-station-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight Signs Slew of Launch Customers and Ground Station Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Spaceflight <\/b>has signed a slew of new customers for rideshare and launch services, and a ground station services agreement with <b>RBC Signals<\/b>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the company released a sizable list of customers for upcoming missions, including first-time customers. Spaceflight is planning several Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle missions to support these customers in various orbits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight shared the names of several new customers \u2014&nbsp;<strong>GeoJump<\/strong>, <strong>Portland State Aerospace Society<\/strong>, <strong>Space Products and Innovation<\/strong> (SPiN), <strong>Spacemanic<\/strong>, <strong>University of Toronto Aerospace Team<\/strong>, and <strong>Xona Space Systems<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A number of returning customers have signed new deals as well \u2014&nbsp;<b>Astrocast<\/b>, <b>Canon Electronics<\/b>, <b>Capella Space<\/b>, <b>HawkEye 360<\/b>, <b>Orbit Fab<\/b>, <b>Loft Orbital<\/b>, <b>NASA<\/b>, <b>NearSpace Launch Inc.<\/b> \/ I<b>nter-Modal Holding LLC<\/b>, and several undisclosed U.S. government organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Spaceflight has reached a deal with RBC Signals to use its ground station network for multiple missions, with the option for continued services after.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The companies worked together for Spaceflight\u2019s rideshare customers on the <b>SpaceX<\/b> Transporter-2 mission on June 30. Spaceflight tested propulsion and specific maneuvers of the Sherpa-LTE1 vehicle, and RBC Signals provided space-to-ground communications in multiple bands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stability of the RBC Signals ground station network gave us the confidence to execute the commands to Sherpa-LTE1 for propulsion and maneuvering,\u201d commented Spaceflight\u2019s Vice President of Engineering, Phil Bracken. &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceflight has signed a slew of new customers for rideshare and launch services, and a ground station services agreement with RBC Signals.&nbsp; On Tuesday, the company released a sizable list of customers for upcoming missions, including first-time customers. Spaceflight is planning several Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle missions to support these customers in various orbits.&nbsp; Spaceflight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53293,"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-56624","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\/56624"}],"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=56624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}