{"id":67804,"date":"2017-07-06T23:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/pacsci-emc-tests-new-technologies-on-demonstrator-satellite\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T23:57:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:57:19","slug":"pacsci-emc-tests-new-technologies-on-demonstrator-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/pacsci-emc-tests-new-technologies-on-demonstrator-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"PacSci EMC Tests New Technologies on Demonstrator Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>PacSci EMC<\/strong> successfully completed initial payload tests of new technologies on its on-orbit technology demonstrator satellite, PacSciSat, on June 30. After a one-week satellite commissioning period in a 515 km sun synchronous polar orbit, PacSci EMC successfully passed built-in tests on both its primary and redundant Smart Energetics Architecture (SEA) sequencing system and devices, fired two Smart Initiators, and demonstrated pyrotechnic rocket-based attitude control maneuvers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis phase of the mission proved that our SEA-based networked sequencing system firing Smart Initiators, performs reliably and precisely as commanded and is now at Technology Readiness Level 9 (TRL-9),\u201d said Greg Scaven, PacSci EMC\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>According to PacSci EMC, the low power SEA sequencing system is capable of firing hundreds of pyrotechnic devices with microsecond repeatability and sub-millisecond sequencing. Satellites and spacecraft can use the system to deploy solar arrays, scientific instruments and other devices.<\/p>\n<p>PacSciSat launched on June 22, atop the <strong>Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s<\/strong> (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PacSci EMC successfully completed initial payload tests of new technologies on its on-orbit technology demonstrator satellite, PacSciSat, on June 30. After a one-week satellite commissioning period in a 515 km sun synchronous polar orbit, PacSci EMC successfully passed built-in tests on both its primary and redundant Smart Energetics Architecture (SEA) sequencing system and devices, fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63842,"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-67804","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\/67804"}],"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=67804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}