{"id":81233,"date":"2013-04-06T00:08:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/swiss-company-to-offer-satellite-air-launch-service\/"},"modified":"2013-04-06T00:08:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T16:08:15","slug":"swiss-company-to-offer-satellite-air-launch-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/swiss-company-to-offer-satellite-air-launch-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Company to Offer Satellite Air-Launch Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Switzerland, NASA, Satellite Launch, European Space Agency, Launch Vehicle<br \/>\nPublication: Sen.com<br \/>\nPublication Date: 04\/05\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"159\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/3933b9c1ba59423caf79a693ee611388.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>artist\u2019s impression of the Airbus A300 carrying S3\u2019s shuttle.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Swiss Space Systems\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A new Swiss company is planning to build a spaceport to offer cheap access to orbit for small satellites. <strong>Swiss Space Systems (S3)<\/strong> is working on an unmanned suborbital mini shuttle based on a previous European design called Hermes.  <\/p>\n<p>S3 is not planning to launch the shuttle using rocket launch vehicles but instead using an Airbus A300. The aircraft would take the shuttle up to about 33,000 feet of altitude where it would launch. The shuttle would then glide back to the spaceport in Switzerland to be prepared for its next flight. <\/p>\n<p>This system will allow S3 to launch satellites weighing up to around 550 pounds at a total cost of approximately $10 million \u2013 a quarter of the current cost of a satellite launch. The company expects to have the system ready for launch by 2017. <\/p>\n<p>S3 is using already developed European and <strong>NASA<\/strong> technology, the company expects to save money on research and be able to develop the system for about $260 million. The company has established partnerships with the <strong>European Space Agency (ESA)<\/strong>, <strong>Dassault Aviation<\/strong>, the <strong>Von Karman Institute <\/strong>and <strong>Sonaca<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Initially, S3 will use the Swiss airport of Payerne as its spaceport but other countries such as Malaysia and Morocco have offered partnerships for this effect.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Switzerland, NASA, Satellite Launch, European Space Agency, Launch Vehicle Publication: Sen.com Publication Date: 04\/05\/2013 artist\u2019s impression of the Airbus A300 carrying S3\u2019s shuttle. Image credit: Swiss Space Systems A new Swiss company is planning to build a spaceport to offer cheap access to orbit for small satellites. Swiss Space Systems (S3) is working on [&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-81233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81233"}],"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=81233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}