{"id":65660,"date":"2018-03-22T22:49:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kuang-chi-nanoracks-partner-on-suborbital-helium-spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T22:49:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:49:16","slug":"kuang-chi-nanoracks-partner-on-suborbital-helium-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kuang-chi-nanoracks-partner-on-suborbital-helium-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuang-Chi, NanoRacks Partner On Suborbital Helium Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kuang-Chi Science<\/strong> and <strong>NanoRacks<\/strong> announced a partnership to cooperate on Kuang-Chi\u2019s near-space helium spacecraft, the Traveler. The partnership will focus on the development of the Traveler program outside of China, leveraging Kuang-Chi\u2019s near-space technology and NanoRacks\u2019 experience in both in-space business development and customer marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Kuang-Chi\u2019s Traveler is a platform that offers access to suborbital space for tourism and commercial applications, from ecological and terrestrial observation to satellite deployment and space research. The Traveler will use high-altitude helium buoyancy to transport people and payloads into near space, 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) above the Earth. Kuang-Chi and NanoRacks seek to cooperate to establish the Traveler as a commercially viable solution from a number of locations in China and worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Traveler program is nearing the commercial market, having conducted a series of successful test flights in New Zealand and China in recent years. The most recent test mission reached a height over 21 kilometers and successfully transported a live turtle in a high-altitude cabin, Kuang-Chi stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuang-Chi Science and NanoRacks announced a partnership to cooperate on Kuang-Chi\u2019s near-space helium spacecraft, the Traveler. The partnership will focus on the development of the Traveler program outside of China, leveraging Kuang-Chi\u2019s near-space technology and NanoRacks\u2019 experience in both in-space business development and customer marketing. Kuang-Chi\u2019s Traveler is a platform that offers access to suborbital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65661,"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-65660","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\/65660"}],"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=65660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}