{"id":63719,"date":"2018-10-30T01:09:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T17:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-signs-iot-satellite-launch-contract-with-fleet\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T01:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T17:09:58","slug":"rocket-lab-signs-iot-satellite-launch-contract-with-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-signs-iot-satellite-launch-contract-with-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Signs IOT Satellite Launch Contract with Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>U.S. orbital launch provider <strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong> has signed a contract with fast-growing Internet of Things (IOT) startup <strong>Fleet Space Technologies<\/strong> to launch two satellites that will form the foundation of a global IOT communications constellation. The two Proxima satellites are the first of a fleet of small, low-cost satellites that will provide internet connectivity for millions of sensor devices based in remote locations on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites have been added to the manifest for Rocket Lab\u2019s upcoming mission, \u201cIt\u2019s Business Time,\u201d scheduled for launch in November from Rocket Lab\u2019s Launch Complex-1 on New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101hia Peninsula. The payloads were manifested quickly, with just weeks passing between signing the agreement and the satellites completing integration for launch next month. This rapid manifesting process is crucial to small satellite customers, offering flexible and frequent launch opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The Fleet satellites will be launched inside Rocket Lab\u2019s in-house designed and built Maxwell dispenser. They join the current It\u2019s Business Time payloads of two <strong>Spire Global<\/strong> Lemur-2 satellites, the Irvine CubeSat Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Program (ICSP) IRVINE01 educational CubeSat, NABEO, a drag sail technology demonstrator designed and built by <strong>High Performance Space Structure Systems GmBH<\/strong> and a <strong>GeoOptics<\/strong>&nbsp;satellite, built by <strong>Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Proxima I and II satellites are a pair of identical 1.5 U CubeSats designed and built by Fleet. The satellites will mark the first commercial tests of Fleet\u2019s software-defined radios, enabling it to transmit data efficiently across both S-band and L-band frequencies in space. The satellites will ultimately help form the beginning of a constellation of more than 100 nanosatellites that, together, will act as a dedicated Internet of Things (IOT) space network for enterprises across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has signed a contract with fast-growing Internet of Things (IOT) startup Fleet Space Technologies to launch two satellites that will form the foundation of a global IOT communications constellation. The two Proxima satellites are the first of a fleet of small, low-cost satellites that will provide internet connectivity for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63722,"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-63719","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\/63719"}],"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=63719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}