{"id":65104,"date":"2018-05-31T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T12:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/does-darpa-want-to-shrink-satellites\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T12:34:52","slug":"does-darpa-want-to-shrink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/does-darpa-want-to-shrink-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Does DARPA Want to Shrink Satellites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>It is said that history repeats itself, but could this be true of <em>rock<\/em>ets launched from high-altitude ball<em>oons<\/em><em> (aka rocoons)<\/em><em>? Used in the <\/em>1950s Air Force program Farside, could rockoons make a comeback? Dane Rudy, CEO of <strong>Leo Aerospace<\/strong>, would like to see a resurgence. His recent promotion of the smallsats ballooning into stratosphere follow the \u201cLaunch Challenge\u201d announced in April by the <strong>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/strong> (DARPA). The competition aims to see two smallsats launched into space within a span of weeks. Less than a month before the first launch, sometime in the last quarter of 2019, DARPA will tell competitors of the venue. Less than two weeks before go-time, the agency will provide orbit, payload and pad details. This must all then be repeated successfully. The incentive for competitors is the $10 million first-place prize, but what is in it for DARPA? The military mindset is constantly concerned about how we are, or could be, threatened. Does DARPA see a parallel between shrinking risk and shrinking satellites?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Read more at Wired &gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is said that history repeats itself, but could this be true of rockets launched from high-altitude balloons (aka rocoons)? Used in the 1950s Air Force program Farside, could rockoons make a comeback? Dane Rudy, CEO of Leo Aerospace, would like to see a resurgence. His recent promotion of the smallsats ballooning into stratosphere follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65105,"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-65104","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\/65104"}],"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=65104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}