{"id":61139,"date":"2019-11-08T19:19:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sstl-ships-satellite-for-astroscales-elsa-d-mission\/"},"modified":"2019-11-08T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:19:15","slug":"sstl-ships-satellite-for-astroscales-elsa-d-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sstl-ships-satellite-for-astroscales-elsa-d-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"SSTL Ships Satellite for Astroscale\u2019s ELSA-d Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surrey Satellite Technology<\/strong> (SSTL) has shipped a 16 kilogram (kg) Target satellite for Astroscale\u2019s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission to Tokyo, where it will be bolted to the Chaser satellite for environmental testing ahead of launch in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The ELSA-d mission is designed to simulate capture of orbital debris and validate key technologies for end-of-life spacecraft retrieval and disposal services. The Target and Chaser satellites will be attached for launch and de-orbit, but while on-orbit at 500-600 km they will be deployed in a series of increasingly complex separation and capture manoeuvres using search, identification, rendezvous, docking, and de-orbit technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Parker, Managing Director of SSTL, said \u201cIt is vital that the international space community tackles the issue of space junk and therefore I am very pleased that SSTL is involved in Astroscale\u2019s ELSA-d inaugural end-of-life spacecraft retrieval demonstration mission. We are looking forward to following the in-orbit operations of this milestone mission.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) has shipped a 16 kilogram (kg) Target satellite for Astroscale\u2019s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission to Tokyo, where it will be bolted to the Chaser satellite for environmental testing ahead of launch in 2020. The ELSA-d mission is designed to simulate capture of orbital debris and validate key technologies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57033,"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-61139","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\/61139"}],"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=61139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}