{"id":125703,"date":"2021-07-31T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T22:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/worlds-first-commercial-re-programmable-satellite-blasts-into-space"},"modified":"2021-07-31T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T22:22:52","slug":"worlds-first-commercial-re-programmable-satellite-blasts-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/worlds-first-commercial-re-programmable-satellite-blasts-into-space","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first commercial re-programmable satellite blasts into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-commercial-re-programmable-satellite-blasts-into-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first commercial fully re-programmable satellite lifted off from French Guiana on Friday on board an Ariane 5 rocket, ushering in a new era of more flexible communications.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike conventional models that are designed and \u201chard-wired\u201d on Earth and cannot be repurposed once in orbit, the Eutelsat Quantum allows users to tailor the communications to their needs\u2014almost in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/real-time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">real-time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite will be placed in orbit some 36 minutes after the launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first commercial fully re-programmable satellite lifted off from French Guiana on Friday on board an Ariane 5 rocket, ushering in a new era of more flexible communications. Unlike conventional models that are designed and \u201chard-wired\u201d on Earth and cannot be repurposed once in orbit, the Eutelsat Quantum allows users to tailor the communications [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125703","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=125703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}