{"id":86023,"date":"2010-10-12T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T11:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeing-acquires-signals-from-sbss-satellite\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T19:49:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T11:49:20","slug":"boeing-acquires-signals-from-sbss-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeing-acquires-signals-from-sbss-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Acquires Signals from SBSS Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Boeing<\/strong> has acquired initial on-orbit signals from the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>\u2019s first Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite following its Sept. 25 launch by <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong> from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Boeing, which is responsible for overall program management, said  the satellite is functioning normally and is ready to begin orbital  maneuvers and operational testing. The SBSS Block 10 satellite was built  for the Air Force by a Boeing-led team that included Orbital Sciences<strong> <\/strong>and<strong> Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp<\/strong>. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SBSS operators will perform health checks on the satellite bus over  the next two weeks, followed by payload checkout. Tests include sending  simulated space situational awareness tasks to the SBSS Satellite  Operations Center, which will send commands to the satellite and collect  data from those tasks for the Air Force Joint Space Operations Center.  The SBSS system is expected to be ready to perform its mission and be  turned over to the Air Force within 60 days.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Once operational, the SBSS satellite\u2019s space-based sensor will  detect and monitor debris, satellites and other space objects without  the disruptions from weather, atmosphere or time of day that limit  ground-based observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has acquired initial on-orbit signals from the U.S. Air Force\u2019s first Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite following its Sept. 25 launch by Orbital Sciences from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Boeing, which is responsible for overall program management, said the satellite is functioning normally and is ready to begin orbital maneuvers and [&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-86023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86023"}],"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=86023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}