{"id":81643,"date":"2013-01-25T20:45:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T12:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbitals-sorce-satellite-celebrates-10th-anniversary-in-space\/"},"modified":"2013-01-25T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T12:45:17","slug":"orbitals-sorce-satellite-celebrates-10th-anniversary-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbitals-sorce-satellite-celebrates-10th-anniversary-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital\u2019s SORCE Satellite Celebrates 10th Anniversary in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<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=\"152\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/SORCE.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Artist conception of the SORCE satellite.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: NASA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[01-25-13] <b>Orbital Sciences<\/b> is celebrating the tenth anniversary of successful operation for its Solar and Radiation Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite, the company announced Jan. 25.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;SORCE was launched into orbit in 2003 aboard Orbital\u2019s Pegasus rocket in a mission that originated from Cape Canaveral, Fla.&nbsp;The original plan for the satellite\u2019s mission was to provide continuous solar climate science and Earth atmospheric data for five years. Ten years later, the program\u2019s Mission Operations Center at the University of Colorado\u2019s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is still receiving data that is shared with the worldwide science community.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe SORCE mission is an ideal example of how academia, government and industry can partner to advance science investigations and our understanding of the world around us.&nbsp; The Principal Investigator model for developing and operating high-value science missions has proven to be very successful on programs like SORCE and NASA-funded Explorer-class missions,\u201d Orbital Vice President of Business Development Rob Fulton said in a statement. \u201cThe SORCE program is an excellent example of this model, with the spacecraft and overall mission doubling the duration originally planned for the program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist conception of the SORCE satellite. Image credit: NASA [01-25-13] Orbital Sciences is celebrating the tenth anniversary of successful operation for its Solar and Radiation Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite, the company announced Jan. 25. &nbsp; &nbsp;SORCE was launched into orbit in 2003 aboard Orbital\u2019s Pegasus rocket in a mission that originated from Cape Canaveral, Fla.&nbsp;The [&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-81643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81643"}],"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=81643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}