{"id":59047,"date":"2020-09-11T23:26:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-to-build-smallsats-for-far-off-binary-asteroid-mission\/"},"modified":"2020-09-11T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:26:48","slug":"lockheed-martin-to-build-smallsats-for-far-off-binary-asteroid-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-to-build-smallsats-for-far-off-binary-asteroid-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin to Build Smallsats for Far-Off Binary Asteroid Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The University of Colorado Boulder and <b>Lockheed Martin<\/b> are working on a smallsat mission called Janus to capture the first-ever closeup look at binary asteroids. In 2022, the Janus team will launch two identical spacecraft that will travel millions of miles to individually fly close to two pairs of binary asteroids, which are pairs of asteroids that orbit around each other. The mission is under <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2018s SIMPLEx program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin Janus Project Manager Josh Wood said that the spacecraft are designed to be small and nimble. Each one is about 80 pounds, the size of a carry-on suitcase, and will travel farther than any small satellite to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see an advantage to be able to shrink our spacecraft,\u201d said Wood. \u201cWith technology advancements, we can now explore our solar system and address important science questions with smaller spacecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janus is led by the University of Colorado Boulder, which will also undertake the scientific analysis of images and data for the mission. Lockheed Martin will manage, build and operate the spacecraft.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin are working on a smallsat mission called Janus to capture the first-ever closeup look at binary asteroids. In 2022, the Janus team will launch two identical spacecraft that will travel millions of miles to individually fly close to two pairs of binary asteroids, which are pairs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59048,"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-59047","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\/59047"}],"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=59047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}