{"id":69734,"date":"2016-10-12T21:27:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-to-launch-terra-bella-satellites-through-spaceflight-industries\/"},"modified":"2016-10-12T21:27:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:27:23","slug":"spacex-to-launch-terra-bella-satellites-through-spaceflight-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-to-launch-terra-bella-satellites-through-spaceflight-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to Launch Terra Bella Satellites Through Spaceflight Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-12-2016] <strong>Terra Bella<\/strong>, a <strong>Google <\/strong>company, has signed an agreement with <strong>Spaceflight Industries <\/strong>to launch SkySats on a <strong>SpaceX <\/strong>Falcon 9 rocket. The company will be the co-lead on Spaceflight\u2019s first Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) dedicated rideshare mission, designated SSO-A, purchased in 2015. The mission is currently scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in late 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight has government and commercial microsats and cubesats booked for the SSO-A mission, and is currently at 90 percent capacity with more than 20 payloads from 10 countries. Confirmed spacecraft include <strong>Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology<\/strong>\u2019s (KAIST) NEXTSat-1 satellite, an astronomy mission and technology demonstrator; an <strong>Iceye<\/strong> Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) micro-satellite for all-weather imaging; and HawkEye 360\u2019s first&nbsp;three formation-flying satellites to&nbsp;detect, characterize, and geolocate RF signals worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a tide shift in the industry\u2019s expectation for routine, reliable and affordable access to space,\u201d said Curt Blake, president of Spaceflight. \u201cThe willingness of prominent commercial organizations to join forces for the advancement of global initiatives is very encouraging to the smallsat community, and to society as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terra Bella has not revealed how many&nbsp;satellites will launch on the mission. In a previous <em>Via Satellite<\/em> interview, a Terra Bella executive said the company was still in need of launches for eight more SkySats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-12-2016] Terra Bella, a Google company, has signed an agreement with Spaceflight Industries to launch SkySats on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The company will be the co-lead on Spaceflight\u2019s first Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) dedicated rideshare mission, designated SSO-A, purchased in 2015. The mission is currently scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50902,"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-69734","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\/69734"}],"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=69734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}