{"id":64567,"date":"2018-07-17T17:31:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T09:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-micro-systems-to-provide-payload-for-uk-launch\/"},"modified":"2018-07-17T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T09:31:56","slug":"orbital-micro-systems-to-provide-payload-for-uk-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-micro-systems-to-provide-payload-for-uk-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Micro Systems to Provide Payload for UK Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Orbital Micro Systems<\/strong> (OMS) has been selected to provide the pathfinder mission payload for the initial launch of the U.K. Spaceflight Program, which is an initiative to create a world-leading commercial launch market to grow the U.K. economy through regular, reliable, and responsible access to space.<\/p>\n<p>OMS, in partnership with both <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> and other U.K.-based firms, will create and fly a pathfinder spacecraft for an initial launch planned for the early 2020s. The mission payload will include OMS\u2019s miniaturized microwave radiometer instrument, providing temperature, humidity, and precipitation data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Kingdom has a wealth of resources: well-funded facilities, an educated and inventive workforce, and strong government support that positions the country as a market leader in the growing space economy,\u201d OMS Chief Executive Officer William Hosack said in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) has been selected to provide the pathfinder mission payload for the initial launch of the U.K. Spaceflight Program, which is an initiative to create a world-leading commercial launch market to grow the U.K. economy through regular, reliable, and responsible access to space. OMS, in partnership with both Lockheed Martin and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61491,"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-64567","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\/64567"}],"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=64567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}