{"id":59854,"date":"2020-04-24T17:54:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T09:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-space-forces-tetra-1-satellite-is-ready-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T17:54:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T09:54:27","slug":"u-s-space-forces-tetra-1-satellite-is-ready-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-space-forces-tetra-1-satellite-is-ready-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Space Force\u2019s TETRA-1 Satellite is Ready for Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Millennium Space Systems<\/b>, a <b>Boeing subsidiary<\/b>, designed, manufactured, assembled, and integrated the U.S. Space Force TETRA-1 satellite in 15 months, which the company said is 60% faster than previous missions. TETRA-1 is a microsatellite created for various prototype missions in and around Geostationary Orbit (GEO). It was the first prototype award under the U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space and Missile Systems Center\u2019s Space Enterprise Consortium Other Transaction Authority (OTA) charter.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The satellite has successfully completed its environmental and full functional tests after integration, and is now manifested on a <b>SpaceX<\/b> Falcon Heavy rocket for scheduled launch in late 2020. Millennium said in an April 21 release that most of the TETRA-1 components were completed with in-house capabilities, demonstrating that organically developed capabilities are a key enabler for executing programs on a tight schedule.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pace set on TETRA-1 from contract award through readiness to launch represents what Boeing does best for our national security customers,\u201d said Mark Cherry, vice president and general manager of Boeing Phantom Works. \u201cOur lean Millennium team was up to the task, building and delivering a fully tested and verified satellite in record time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing subsidiary, designed, manufactured, assembled, and integrated the U.S. Space Force TETRA-1 satellite in 15 months, which the company said is 60% faster than previous missions. TETRA-1 is a microsatellite created for various prototype missions in and around Geostationary Orbit (GEO). It was the first prototype award under the U.S. Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59855,"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-59854","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\/59854"}],"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=59854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}