{"id":137779,"date":"2022-04-07T01:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T06:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/astranis-is-contracting-an-entire-falcon-9-rocket-to-launch-four-satellites-next-year"},"modified":"2022-04-07T01:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T06:02:42","slug":"astranis-is-contracting-an-entire-falcon-9-rocket-to-launch-four-satellites-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/astranis-is-contracting-an-entire-falcon-9-rocket-to-launch-four-satellites-next-year","title":{"rendered":"Astranis is contracting an entire Falcon 9 rocket to launch four satellites next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astranis-is-contracting-an-entire-falcon-9-rocket-to-launch-four-satellites-next-year3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based startup Astranis has purchased a dedicated launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, eschewing the less expensive \u201cride-share\u201d model favored by new space companies for an exclusive mission that Astranis says will put its package of four communications satellites closer to their target orbit in a much faster amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re actually using substantially less than the max capability of a Falcon 9,\u201d Astranis CEO and founder John Gedmark explained. \u201cThis is just four small satellites that [will be] on there. So we\u2019re actually able to use all of that extra performance to put those four satellites much closer to GEO than you would normally be able to do with with this kind of launch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How much faster? At least twice as fast, cutting down the time from up to six months to as little as three months. Purchasing a dedicated launch on a Falcon 9 \u2014 a first amongst space companies \u2014 also means that Astranis will have much more control over when the rocket takes off and the payload insertion orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco-based startup Astranis has purchased a dedicated launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, eschewing the less expensive \u201cride-share\u201d model favored by new space companies for an exclusive mission that Astranis says will put its package of four communications satellites closer to their target orbit in a much faster amount of time. \u201cWe\u2019re actually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137779","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=137779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}