{"id":62189,"date":"2019-06-21T22:13:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ball-aerospaces-satellite-for-nasa-gpim-mission-arrives-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T22:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:13:28","slug":"ball-aerospaces-satellite-for-nasa-gpim-mission-arrives-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ball-aerospaces-satellite-for-nasa-gpim-mission-arrives-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Aerospace\u2019s Satellite for NASA GPIM Mission Arrives in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Ball Aerospace<\/strong> satellite used for <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2018s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) is ready for launch, scheduled for no earlier than&nbsp;June 24&nbsp;on board a <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon Heavy rocket. Ball built the small satellite, which contains NASA\u2019s first opportunity to demonstrate a new \u201cgreen\u201d propellant and propulsion system in orbit \u2014 an alternative to conventional chemical propulsion systems.<\/p>\n<p>As the prime contractor for GPIM, Ball Aerospace is responsible for system engineering; flight thruster performance verification; ground and flight data review; spacecraft bus; assembly, integration and test; and launch and flight support. The spacecraft bus is the smallest of the Ball Configurable Platform (BCP) satellites, which is about the size of a mini refrigerator, and was assembled in 46 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGPIM has the potential to inspire new ideas and new missions, which could mean smaller spacecraft, faster and easier ground processing, longer design lives and more,\u201d said Dr.&nbsp;Makenzie Lystrup, vice president and general manager, Civil Space, Ball Aerospace. \u201cBall is also developing small satellites for two other NASA missions \u2014 the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and the Spectro Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) missions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ball Aerospace satellite used for NASA\u2018s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) is ready for launch, scheduled for no earlier than&nbsp;June 24&nbsp;on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Ball built the small satellite, which contains NASA\u2019s first opportunity to demonstrate a new \u201cgreen\u201d propellant and propulsion system in orbit \u2014 an alternative to conventional chemical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62190,"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-62189","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\/62189"}],"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=62189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}