{"id":73718,"date":"2015-07-17T17:52:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T09:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/firefly-space-systems-issues-payload-users-guide-gains-new-investment\/"},"modified":"2015-07-17T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T09:52:56","slug":"firefly-space-systems-issues-payload-users-guide-gains-new-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/firefly-space-systems-issues-payload-users-guide-gains-new-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Space Systems Issues Payload User\u2019s Guide, Gains New Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-17-2015] <b>Firefly Space Systems, <\/b>has released its Payload User\u2019s Guide for the Alpha vehicle, the company\u2019s first small satellite rocket in a scalable family of launch vehicles currently under development. The&nbsp;Payload User\u2019s Guide provides Firefly\u2019s customers with information detailing the operations and capabilities of its Alpha vehicle. The document\u2019s purpose is to enable customers to prepare more effectively and efficiently for their small satellite missions. Firefly Alpha is designed to lift approximately 400 kilograms to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for $8 million. Its first flight is slated for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Firefly also reported the participation of <b>Capital Factory<\/b>, an Austin, Texas based accelerator, in the launch startup\u2019s most recent investment round. Capital Factory said in a statement that its investment \u201cdoesn\u2019t move the needle\u201d compared to the total amount Firefly has already raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-17-2015] Firefly Space Systems, has released its Payload User\u2019s Guide for the Alpha vehicle, the company\u2019s first small satellite rocket in a scalable family of launch vehicles currently under development. The&nbsp;Payload User\u2019s Guide provides Firefly\u2019s customers with information detailing the operations and capabilities of its Alpha vehicle. The document\u2019s purpose is to enable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65320,"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-73718","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\/73718"}],"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=73718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}