{"id":127663,"date":"2021-09-14T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/startup-launches-refueling-station-into-orbit-gets-10-million-in-funding"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:23:24","slug":"startup-launches-refueling-station-into-orbit-gets-10-million-in-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/startup-launches-refueling-station-into-orbit-gets-10-million-in-funding","title":{"rendered":"Startup Launches Refueling Station Into Orbit, Gets $10 Million in Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/startup-launches-refueling-station-into-orbit-gets-10-million-in-funding2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In June, San Francisco-based startup Orbit Fab <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-09-gas-station-space.html\" class=\"\">launched a prototype refueling station into Earth\u2019s orbit<\/a> \u2014 but rather than allowing astronauts to venture into deep space, this system is meant to give old satellites a new lease on life.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a compelling idea, and now the company has locked down $10 million in funding to further it. Our planet\u2019s orbit is getting cluttered with old and new satellites, increasing the risks of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-junk-collision-chinese-satellite-yunhai-1-02\" class=\"\">collision<\/a> and adding to an <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/tags\/space-junk\" class=\"\">existing space junk problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Orbit Fab\u2019s Tenzing Tanker-001, an early prototype satellite fuel tanker, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2021\/06\/spacex-f9-transporter-2-rideshare\/\" class=\"\">launched<\/a> into orbit as part of SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-2 rideshare mission on June 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, San Francisco-based startup Orbit Fab launched a prototype refueling station into Earth\u2019s orbit \u2014 but rather than allowing astronauts to venture into deep space, this system is meant to give old satellites a new lease on life. That\u2019s a compelling idea, and now the company has locked down $10 million in funding to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127663","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}