{"id":59587,"date":"2020-06-05T22:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbastro-to-hitch-ride-to-sun-synchronous-orbit-with-momentus-on-spacex-launch\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T22:20:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:20:52","slug":"orbastro-to-hitch-ride-to-sun-synchronous-orbit-with-momentus-on-spacex-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbastro-to-hitch-ride-to-sun-synchronous-orbit-with-momentus-on-spacex-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"OrbAstro\u00a0to Hitch Ride to Sun-Synchronous Orbit with Momentus on SpaceX Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Momentus<\/b>, which provides in-space transportation services for satellites, will fly an <b>OrbAstro<\/b> 3U satellite to Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) onboard the<b> SpaceX<\/b> dedicated rideshare mission in 2021, the companies announced Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OrbAstro is a company based in the United Kingdom that is focused on developing hardware and software to enable tiny satellites to operate in large flocks. This in-orbit demonstration mission on a 3U OrbAstro platform will host a variety of payloads, including an Ultrascale+ based onboard computer coupled to an artificial neural network-based constellation management system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing this [in-orbit demonstration], we expect to launch a small cluster of formation-flying nanosatellites to de- risk all remaining technologies under development before scaling up to our constellation aspirations, said Dr. Ash Dove-Jay, OrbAstro founder and CEO. \u201cMomentus strikes us as an ideal partner going forwards \u2014 their flexible approach, large launch manifest, and ability to transfer us to a nominal orbit is unmatched.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Momentous CEO Mikhail Kokorich said in the future, OrbAstro\u2019s work could enable Momentus to do rendezvous and proximity ops for refueling, satellite servicing, and repositioning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Momentus, which provides in-space transportation services for satellites, will fly an OrbAstro 3U satellite to Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) onboard the SpaceX dedicated rideshare mission in 2021, the companies announced Thursday.&nbsp; OrbAstro is a company based in the United Kingdom that is focused on developing hardware and software to enable tiny satellites to operate in large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47608,"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-59587","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\/59587"}],"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=59587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}