{"id":8612,"date":"2023-05-11T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T12:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/impulse-space-successfully-qualifies-saiph-thruster-ahead-its-of-first-mission\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T12:54:08","slug":"impulse-space-successfully-qualifies-saiph-thruster-ahead-its-of-first-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/impulse-space-successfully-qualifies-saiph-thruster-ahead-its-of-first-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Impulse Space Successfully Qualifies Saiph Thruster Ahead its of First Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/salph_thumb_merged_638193761386196938.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Impulse Space Successfully Qualifies Saiph Thruster Ahead its of First Mission\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/salph_thumb_merged_638193761386196938.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/salph_thumb_merged_638193761386196938.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>Impulse Space, Inc. \u2013 a company in the development of in-space logistics services for the inner solar system \u2013 announced its Saiph thruster is space qualified and now ready to support the LEO Express-1 mission , set to launch in October 2023. LEO Express-1, Impulse Space\u2019s first orbital mission, was announced earlier this year and will utilize Mira, Impulse\u2019s first spacecraft, to perform in-space services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe completion of the Saiph thruster qualification is validation of Impulse\u2019s in-house capabilities and rapid development approach,\u201d states Impulse Space Vice President of Propulsion Kevin Miller. \u201cThis thruster is one of the key building blocks for our current and future propulsion systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qualification testing was efficiently accomplished within 17 days. Impulse Space has completed 50,000 pulses of the Saiph propulsion system and operated the thruster for a total of 65,000 seconds. The Saiph&nbsp;thruster&nbsp;has demonstrated up to 12 continuous minutes of burn duration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click Here to learn more about Thrusters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/55anJTeBRrA?&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"fr-draggable\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impulse Space, Inc. \u2013 a company in the development of in-space logistics services for the inner solar system \u2013 announced its Saiph thruster is space qualified and now ready to support the LEO Express-1 mission , set to launch in October 2023. LEO Express-1, Impulse Space\u2019s first orbital mission, was announced earlier this year 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":[25,38,49,36],"class_list":["post-8612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-launch","tag-leo","tag-propulsion-systems","tag-thrusters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612"}],"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=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}