{"id":76797,"date":"2014-07-25T20:56:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/surrey-satellite-technology-us-selects-five-payloads-for-2016-ride-share-mission\/"},"modified":"2014-07-25T20:56:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:56:21","slug":"surrey-satellite-technology-us-selects-five-payloads-for-2016-ride-share-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/surrey-satellite-technology-us-selects-five-payloads-for-2016-ride-share-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey Satellite Technology US Selects Five Payloads for 2016 Ride-Share Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-25-2014] <b>Surrey Satellite Technology US<\/b> has decided on five payloads to carry on the company\u2019s Orbital Test Bed (OTB) mission in 2016. Using the SSTL-150 satellite bus, the OTB provides a means to test and space-qualify new technology in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).<\/p>\n<p>The U.S<b>. Air Force Academy <\/b>will test its Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer (iMESA-R) sensor designed to sample the space environment in search of plasma irregularities for forecasting outages in space weather models. <b>Vanguard Space Technologies <\/b>is also testing a Modular Solar Array for the <b>Air Force Research Lab<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The OTB mission will carry two university payloads. <b>Surrey University <\/b>plans to demonstrate its Electronics Test Bed (ETB), and the <b>Colorado University Surrey Project <\/b>(CUSP) a data collection and storage electronic test bed experiment. Lastly, <b>NASA<\/b>\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate will test its Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC).<\/p>\n<p><b>SpaceX <\/b>is scheduled to launch the test platform on a Falcon Heavy rocket. After testing these payloads, the OTB mission will attempt to conclude by trialing a Terminator Tape Deorbit Module developed by <b>Tethers Unlimited<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-25-2014] Surrey Satellite Technology US has decided on five payloads to carry on the company\u2019s Orbital Test Bed (OTB) mission in 2016. Using the SSTL-150 satellite bus, the OTB provides a means to test and space-qualify new technology in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The U.S. Air Force Academy will test its Integrated Miniaturized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76798,"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-76797","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\/76797"}],"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=76797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}