{"id":124139,"date":"2021-06-22T22:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T05:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/space-development-agency-to-launch-five-satellites-aboard-spacex-rideshare"},"modified":"2021-06-22T22:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T05:23:44","slug":"space-development-agency-to-launch-five-satellites-aboard-spacex-rideshare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/space-development-agency-to-launch-five-satellites-aboard-spacex-rideshare","title":{"rendered":"Space Development Agency to launch five satellites aboard SpaceX rideshare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-development-agency-to-launch-five-satellites-aboard-spacex-rideshare2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Space Development Agency has five satellites riding on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-2 mission scheduled to launch June 25.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Development Agency has five satellites riding on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-2 rideshare mission <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1407434307640070146?s=20\">scheduled to launch June 25.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing in the space business that gets your blood pumping like the idea of a launch, especially if you\u2019ve got multiple satellites,\u201d a senior Space Development Agency (SDA) official told reporters June 22. \u201cWe\u2019re really excited about what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Transporter-2 is expected to carry as many as 88 small satellites from commercial and government customers to a sun synchronous polar orbit. SDA\u2019s five payloads include two pairs of satellites to demonstrate laser communications links, and one to demonstrate how data can be processed and analyzed autonomously aboard a satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Space Development Agency has five satellites riding on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-2 mission scheduled to launch June 25. WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Development Agency has five satellites riding on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-2 rideshare mission scheduled to launch June 25. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing in the space business that gets your blood pumping like the idea of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1490,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}