{"id":67000,"date":"2017-10-23T18:44:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T10:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/vector-schedules-three-launches-from-wallops-island\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T18:44:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T10:44:03","slug":"vector-schedules-three-launches-from-wallops-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/vector-schedules-three-launches-from-wallops-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Vector Schedules Three Launches from Wallops Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Nanosatellite launch provider <strong>Vector <\/strong>has entered into an agreement with <strong>Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority <\/strong>(Virginia Space) to conduct three commercial orbital missions out of Virginia Space\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) in the next 24 months with an option for five additional launches.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vector, these initial flights from MARS \u2014 which is located in Wallops Island, Virginia \u2014 are part of a series of orbital launches that will further enable the company to validate technology, mature launch vehicle design and operations, and firmly establish commercial launch sites for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Vector also transported a Vector-R launch vehicle engineering unit from the company\u2019s headquarters in Tucson, Arizona to MARS to showcase an initial set of ground and simulated propellant loading operations with an associated Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanosatellite launch provider Vector has entered into an agreement with Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (Virginia Space) to conduct three commercial orbital missions out of Virginia Space\u2019s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) in the next 24 months with an option for five additional launches. According to Vector, these initial flights from MARS \u2014 which is located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67002,"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-67000","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\/67000"}],"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=67000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}