[Via Satellite 12-23-2015] Sierra Nevada Corporation <\/b>(SNC) has successfully completed the solar array deployment and initial on-orbit checkout phase for all 11 satellites launched for Orbcomm<\/b>\u2019s Generation 2 (OG2) Mission 2, which launched Dec. 21 on a SpaceX <\/b>Falcon 9 rocket. SNC is the prime contractor and spacecraft bus manufacturer for OG2.<\/p>\n
The launch used a unique configuration of three stacked EELV Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) Grande rings from Moog Space and Defense Group <\/b>to carry the satellites to orbit. All 11 spacecraft, and the six launched in July 2014, include propulsion systems from Moog. Similar to management of the 2014 launch, SNC will provide Orbcomm on-orbit servicing and operations support from SNC\u2019s satellite operations center in Louisville, Colo., in addition to on-site support provided at the Orbcomm network control center in Sterling, Va.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe initial results of the on-orbit performance of the spacecraft have met or exceeded our performance criteria,\u201d said Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president of SNC\u2019s Space Systems.<\/p>\n
The OG2 constellation is based on SNC\u2019s SN-100 satellite bus, which uses a modular payload deck for rapid integration and highly automated scripts to test all functions. Boeing<\/b> designed the payloads for the OG2 satellite network, which enable Machine-to-Machine (M2M) messaging and Automatic Identification System (AIS) services. Orbcomm expects the satellites to enter services within 60 days of launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[Via Satellite 12-23-2015] Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has successfully completed the solar array deployment and initial on-orbit checkout phase for all 11 satellites launched for Orbcomm\u2019s Generation 2 (OG2) Mission 2, which launched Dec. 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. SNC is the prime contractor and spacecraft bus manufacturer for OG2. The launch used a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72370,"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-72367","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\/72367"}],"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=72367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}