{"id":67298,"date":"2017-09-14T00:55:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ssl-runs-ground-demo-of-dragonfly-on-orbit-assembly-program\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T00:55:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T16:55:38","slug":"ssl-runs-ground-demo-of-dragonfly-on-orbit-assembly-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ssl-runs-ground-demo-of-dragonfly-on-orbit-assembly-program\/","title":{"rendered":"SSL Runs Ground Demo of Dragonfly On-Orbit Assembly Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Space Systems Loral <\/strong>(SSL) announced that <strong>NASA<\/strong> has awarded the next phase of funding for its Dragonfly on-orbit satellite assembly program. SSL and its partners, which include <strong>MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates<\/strong> (MDA), <strong>NASA<\/strong>, and <strong>Tethers Unlimited<\/strong>, will now move forward with design of the semi-autonomous robotic system after completing a ground demonstration of the Dragonfly developments to date.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration included an ultra-light robotic system and advanced command and control software designed to make use of existing spacecraft equipment and capabilities, including a standard Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) spacecraft platform and processor.<\/p>\n<p>NASA awarded SSL the Dragonfly contract in late 2015 to evaluate ways to build satellites in space that would otherwise not fit within a standard launch vehicle fairing.&nbsp;The program is just one example of NASA\u2019s recent efforts to leverage commercial technology that could benefit both commercial and government space endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced that NASA has awarded the next phase of funding for its Dragonfly on-orbit satellite assembly program. SSL and its partners, which include MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), NASA, and Tethers Unlimited, will now move forward with design of the semi-autonomous robotic system after completing a ground demonstration of the Dragonfly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67300,"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-67298","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\/67298"}],"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=67298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}