{"id":80466,"date":"2013-08-06T19:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-selects-surrey-satellite-us-for-deep-space-atomic-clock-payload\/"},"modified":"2013-08-06T19:37:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T11:37:27","slug":"nasa-selects-surrey-satellite-us-for-deep-space-atomic-clock-payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-selects-surrey-satellite-us-for-deep-space-atomic-clock-payload\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Selects Surrey Satellite US for Deep Space Atomic Clock Payload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>NASA<\/b>\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected Colorado-based <b>Surrey Satellite Technology US (SST-US)<\/b> for the flight of the Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) payload under the sponsorship of <b>NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate<\/b> <b>(STMD)<\/b>. Under the agreement, SST-US will provide a hosted payload flight opportunity for the NASA DSAC payload on its upcoming OTB mission, which is scheduled for a 2015 launch. DSAC will fly on the SST-US-owned-and-operated Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite, the first spacecraft to be integrated at the new SST-US facility in Englewood, Colo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DSAC features a miniaturized, ultra-precise mercury-ion atomic clock. In-orbit demonstration of the precision timing and navigation capabilities of the DSAC instrument is a key requirement for NASA\u2019s pursuit of deep space exploration missions which require higher-precision data collection and autonomous radio navigation for time-critical events such as orbit insertion or landing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cSince our establishment in the U.S. in 2008, we\u2019ve been aware of a number of developed, shelved, or orphaned payloads looking for flight opportunities, and therefore initiated the OTB concept to make available payload capacity to accommodate these third-party payloads,\u201d said SST-US CEO John Paffett in a statement.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected Colorado-based Surrey Satellite Technology US (SST-US) for the flight of the Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) payload under the sponsorship of NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD). Under the agreement, SST-US will provide a hosted payload flight opportunity for the NASA DSAC payload on its upcoming OTB mission, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-80466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80466"}],"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=80466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}