{"id":59509,"date":"2020-06-17T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T10:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spaceflight-gets-its-first-rideshare-payloads-on-a-spacex-starlink-mission\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T18:18:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T10:18:45","slug":"spaceflight-gets-its-first-rideshare-payloads-on-a-spacex-starlink-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spaceflight-gets-its-first-rideshare-payloads-on-a-spacex-starlink-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight Gets its First Rideshare Payloads on a SpaceX Starlink Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spaceflight<\/strong> revealed Wednesday that it will launch two rideshare payloads aboard <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>\u2019s tenth Starlink mission, marking the first SpaceX Starlink mission that will be accompanied by Spaceflight rideshare payloads. Spaceflight\u2019s mission, which it has dubbed SXRS-1 to signify its first rideshare with Starlink, will include two Earth Observation (EO) microsatellites for Spaceflight\u2019s customer <strong>BlackSky<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to securing capacity aboard the vehicle, Spaceflight designed the adapters and harnessing, and executed the integration of the rideshare payloads. The mission is targeted to launch in the coming weeks from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaceX has proved schedule consistency and launch reliability through its Starlink missions, even during this unprecedented time, and we are eager to offer it as a launch option to our customers,\u201d said Curt Blake, president and CEO of Spaceflight. \u201cWe seek to maximize capacity on every launch because any space available is an opportunity for our customers to complete their missions. We\u2019ve executed many firsts with SpaceX, including SSO-A, the first dedicated rideshare mission on a U.S. vehicle as well as the first-ever rideshare mission to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit with a lunar lander. We\u2019re looking forward to another first with SpaceX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Spaceflight rideshare business sale to <strong>Misui &amp; Co <\/strong>was finalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceflight revealed Wednesday that it will launch two rideshare payloads aboard SpaceX\u2019s tenth Starlink mission, marking the first SpaceX Starlink mission that will be accompanied by Spaceflight rideshare payloads. Spaceflight\u2019s mission, which it has dubbed SXRS-1 to signify its first rideshare with Starlink, will include two Earth Observation (EO) microsatellites for Spaceflight\u2019s customer BlackSky. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59510,"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-59509","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\/59509"}],"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=59509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}