{"id":61579,"date":"2019-09-17T00:50:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/millennium-space-systems-satellite-completes-us-air-force-testing\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T00:50:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:50:06","slug":"millennium-space-systems-satellite-completes-us-air-force-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/millennium-space-systems-satellite-completes-us-air-force-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennium Space Systems Satellite Completes US Air Force Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boeing<\/strong> subsidiary <strong>Millennium Space Systems<\/strong> recently completed environmental testing for the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>\u2018s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Wide Field of View (WFOV) satellite at Boeing\u2019s Space Environment Test Facility in El Segundo, offering new synergies to the customer. The geosynchronous satellite will support the next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) mission and provide critical risk reduction and mission data that will inform Air Force Space Command\u2019s next-generation missile warning system.<\/p>\n<p>According to the WFOV program office, SMC is pleased with just how well the thermal vacuum (TVAC) campaign was conducted and the complete access to the test facility. The TVAC campaign went very smoothly and eliminated significant potential program risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve passed one of the largest hurdles remaining for the WFOV program,\u201d said Maj.&nbsp;Brian Curd, chief, OPIR Advanced Payloads and Demonstrations. \u201cNow that we\u2019ve successfully completed all primary phases of the environmental test campaign, we\u2019re looking forward to buttoning up the satellite and getting it on orbit as soon as possible. It will be a great asset to national defense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems recently completed environmental testing for the U.S. Air Force\u2018s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Wide Field of View (WFOV) satellite at Boeing\u2019s Space Environment Test Facility in El Segundo, offering new synergies to the customer. The geosynchronous satellite will support the next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) mission and provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61580,"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-61579","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\/61579"}],"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=61579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}