{"id":67152,"date":"2017-10-04T19:57:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spaceflight-completes-modal-survey-for-sso-a-spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T19:57:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:57:59","slug":"spaceflight-completes-modal-survey-for-sso-a-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spaceflight-completes-modal-survey-for-sso-a-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight Completes Modal Survey for SSO-A Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_269143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269143\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-269143 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170926_114857-e1506464444612-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"SSO-A, with satellite mass simulators attached for testing. Photo: Spaceflight.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170926_114857-e1506464444612-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170926_114857-e1506464444612-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170926_114857-e1506464444612-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170926_114857-e1506464444612-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20170926_114857-e1506464444612.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SSO-A, with satellite mass simulators attached for testing. Photo: Spaceflight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Rideshare broker <strong>Spaceflight<\/strong> announced its SSO-A Integrated Payload Stack has successfully completed a modal survey of the primary structure. The series of tests, conducted by a third party, subjected Spaceflight\u2019s nearly 20-foot satellite rideshare structure to low-level vibration to excite the core structure. Results from these tests are used to correlate the detailed finite element model of the structure with flight structure, ultimately allowing engineers to calculate flight environments that the structure, avionics, and customer spacecraft will be exposed to during the launch.<\/p>\n<p>The survey marks an important milestone for the company\u2019s first dedicated rideshare mission, dubbed \u201cSSO-A,\u201d which plans to launch many small satellites into sun-synchronous orbit from a <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon 9 next year. Spaceflight\u2019s SSO-A mission will carry spacecraft from nearly 50 government and commercial organizations across 16 different countries, including Thailand, Finland, Germany, Australia and Singapore. It will deploy all of the smallsats to a sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which is popular for Earth-imaging satellites. The mission, scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, will transport both microsats and cubesats, with 90 percent of the manifest accounted for by commercial and\/or international organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most complex launch we have ever designed and developed,\u201d said Curt Blake, president of Spaceflight. \u201cBecause we\u2019re breaking ground with such a historic mission, we need to ensure the payloads and spacecraft subsystems will withstand the turbulence and vibrations of launch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSO-A, with satellite mass simulators attached for testing. Photo: Spaceflight. Rideshare broker Spaceflight announced its SSO-A Integrated Payload Stack has successfully completed a modal survey of the primary structure. The series of tests, conducted by a third party, subjected Spaceflight\u2019s nearly 20-foot satellite rideshare structure to low-level vibration to excite the core structure. 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