{"id":73565,"date":"2015-08-05T17:38:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T09:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/millennium-space-systems-starts-building-first-commercial-altair-spacecraft-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-05T17:38:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T09:38:35","slug":"millennium-space-systems-starts-building-first-commercial-altair-spacecraft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/millennium-space-systems-starts-building-first-commercial-altair-spacecraft-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennium Space Systems Starts Building First Commercial Altair Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-05-2015] <b>Millennium Space Systems <\/b>has initiated the manufacture of the first commercial Altair spacecraft, a low cost platform for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Altair 1 uses a flexible 27U form factor, leveraging the CubeSat concept to increase mission capability while keeping cost and schedule savings. The satellite builds on the United States <b>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/b>\u2019s (DARPA) Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements (SeeMe) program for which Millennium Space Systems received a $1.91 million contract in 2013. Altair&nbsp;is designed to demonstrate new and enabling capabilities in significantly shorter time frames.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Millennium\u2019s shift to greater vertical integration, the company is planning the flight demonstration of several internally developed subsystem components.<\/p>\n<p>Millennium is also launching a user interactive website known as MyAltair.com on&nbsp;August 7th where prospective customers can design customize mission concepts based on the company\u2019s Altair&nbsp;small space platform.<b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-05-2015] Millennium Space Systems has initiated the manufacture of the first commercial Altair spacecraft, a low cost platform for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Altair 1 uses a flexible 27U form factor, leveraging the CubeSat concept to increase mission capability while keeping cost and schedule savings. The satellite builds on the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73567,"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-73565","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\/73565"}],"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=73565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}