{"id":82766,"date":"2012-07-19T01:18:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ball-aerospace-stpsat-3-to-host-five-u-s-government-payloads\/"},"modified":"2012-07-19T01:18:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:18:41","slug":"ball-aerospace-stpsat-3-to-host-five-u-s-government-payloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ball-aerospace-stpsat-3-to-host-five-u-s-government-payloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Aerospace STPSat-3 to Host Five U.S. Government Payloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[07-18-12] <b>Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies\u2019<\/b> STPSat-3 spacecraft will host five payloads and a de-orbit module when it launches in 2013 for the <b>U.S. Air Force<\/b> (USAF), the company announced July 17.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The payloads for STPSat-3 will include: the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight (iMESA-R); the Joint Component Research (J-CORE); the Strip Sensor Unit (SSU); the Small Wind and Temperature Spectrometer SWATS; and <b>NASA<\/b> and <b>NOAA\u2019s<\/b> TSI Calibration Transfer Experiment (TCTE)<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Ball Aerospace said the STPSat-3 spacecraft would able to support a variety of experimental and risk reduction payloads at different low-Earth orbits and is compatible with multiple launch vehicles.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe STPSat-3satellite demonstrated its outstanding agility by accommodating additional payloads after the spacecraft was completed,\u201d Ball Aerospace President and CEO David Taylor said in a statement. \u201cBuilt in only 47 days, the versatility of this common spacecraft will be evidenced once again when five payloads are flown aboard STPSat-3 \u2013 two more than carried by SPTSat-2 when it launched in 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[07-18-12] Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies\u2019 STPSat-3 spacecraft will host five payloads and a de-orbit module when it launches in 2013 for the U.S. Air Force (USAF), the company announced July 17. &nbsp; &nbsp;The payloads for STPSat-3 will include: the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight (iMESA-R); the Joint Component Research (J-CORE); the Strip Sensor Unit (SSU); [&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-82766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82766"}],"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=82766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}