{"id":63637,"date":"2018-11-09T19:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iceye-to-launch-iceye-x2-sar-satellite-later-this-month\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T19:12:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T11:12:10","slug":"iceye-to-launch-iceye-x2-sar-satellite-later-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iceye-to-launch-iceye-x2-sar-satellite-later-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceye to Launch ICEYE-X2 SAR Satellite Later This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iceye<\/strong>, an Earth observation company creating a large Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite constellation, is launching the company\u2019s second SAR satellite, ICEYE-X2, into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on <strong>Spaceflight<\/strong>\u2018s SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission. The mission is currently targeted to launch on Nov. 19 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon 9 rocket. The ICEYE-X2 satellite has recently finished all tests, and it has been shipped to the launch site.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight\u2019s SSO-A dedicated rideshare mission will launch ICEYE-X2 into a sun synchronous LEO, along with more than 60 other spacecraft from 34 organizations. The ICEYE-X2 satellite mission is aiming for further improvements in Iceye\u2019s SAR imaging technology.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Iceye launched the world\u2019s first SAR satellite under 100kg, ICEYE-X1, on-board&nbsp;India\u2019s&nbsp;PSLV-C40 rocket. ICEYE-X1 successfully collected more than 600 images throughout its mission. By the end of 2019, Iceye is on track to launch a total of 8 additional satellites after ICEYE-X2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iceye, an Earth observation company creating a large Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite constellation, is launching the company\u2019s second SAR satellite, ICEYE-X2, into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on Spaceflight\u2018s SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission. The mission is currently targeted to launch on Nov. 19 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62475,"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-63637","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\/63637"}],"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=63637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}