{"id":66712,"date":"2017-11-28T22:35:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/on-orbit-satellite-servicing-moves-closer-to-reality\/"},"modified":"2017-11-28T22:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:35:54","slug":"on-orbit-satellite-servicing-moves-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/on-orbit-satellite-servicing-moves-closer-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"On-Orbit Satellite Servicing Moves Closer to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>From Via Satellite\u2019s Executive Editor Jeffrey Hill:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure SpaceX wants their constellation characterized as \u201csmall,\u201d \u201ccheap,\u201d and an alternative to reusability (especially when the rockets are reusable), but here it is: \u201c<em>Some analysts question whether this robot geek squad will be needed at all. A coming boom in small, cheap satellites could replace some more expensive, large satellites. Along with reduced launch costs, led by Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX and its reusable rockets, it could be cheaper to just launch several new small satellites than fix or refuel old ones<\/em>.\u201d Yikes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read more at the Los Angeles Times <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-264189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fullstoryarrow-150x150.png\" alt=\"Full story arrow\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fullstoryarrow-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fullstoryarrow-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fullstoryarrow-144x144.png 144w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fullstoryarrow-70x70.png 70w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fullstoryarrow-201x200.png 201w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fullstoryarrow.png 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Via Satellite\u2019s Executive Editor Jeffrey Hill: I\u2019m not sure SpaceX wants their constellation characterized as \u201csmall,\u201d \u201ccheap,\u201d and an alternative to reusability (especially when the rockets are reusable), but here it is: \u201cSome analysts question whether this robot geek squad will be needed at all. A coming boom in small, cheap satellites could replace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66717,"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-66712","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\/66712"}],"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=66712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}