{"id":66764,"date":"2017-11-17T18:07:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T10:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/vector-considers-vandenberg-to-establish-launch-operations\/"},"modified":"2017-11-17T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T10:07:53","slug":"vector-considers-vandenberg-to-establish-launch-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/vector-considers-vandenberg-to-establish-launch-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Vector Considers Vandenberg to Establish Launch Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Nanosatellite launch company <strong>Vector<\/strong> announced it will explore an arrangement with<strong> Harris Corporation<\/strong> to establish commercial launch operations of the Vector-R launch vehicle at Harris Spaceport Systems on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The initial steps of the pathfinding operations at Space Launch Complex 8 feature a demonstration of a full-scale engineering development version of the Vector-R and the associated Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) that is a key element of Vector\u2019s overall Concept of Operations (CONOPS).<\/p>\n<p>Vector has demonstrated the enhanced efficiencies of a mobile TEL-based approach with its latest showcase of technical operations at Virginia Space\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) and recent flight test at Spaceport Camden in Georgia. These latest tests address requirements and issues specific to Space Launch Complex 8 and Vandenberg Air Force Base, while also refining timelines and transportation logistics, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarris\u2019 site at Vandenberg Air Force Base has great potential to become a key part of our strategy for providing smallsat customers responsive and flexible dedicated access to orbit from multiple locations,\u201d said John Garvey, Vector Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and co-founder. \u201cVandenberg has drastically changed in recent years, in large part because of <strong>SpaceX\u2019s<\/strong> introduction of the Falcon 9. Having Vector explore the site early in the development cycle of our launch operations gives us a chance to better understand how we can leverage Vandenberg\u2019s progress to further streamline launch processes for our class of small launcher.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanosatellite launch company Vector announced it will explore an arrangement with Harris Corporation to establish commercial launch operations of the Vector-R launch vehicle at Harris Spaceport Systems on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The initial steps of the pathfinding operations at Space Launch Complex 8 feature a demonstration of a full-scale engineering development version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66765,"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-66764","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\/66764"}],"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=66764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}