{"id":138119,"date":"2022-04-14T15:03:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/space-force-looking-at-what-it-will-take-to-refuel-satellites-in-orbit"},"modified":"2022-04-14T15:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T20:03:35","slug":"space-force-looking-at-what-it-will-take-to-refuel-satellites-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/space-force-looking-at-what-it-will-take-to-refuel-satellites-in-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Space Force looking at what it will take to refuel satellites in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-looking-at-what-it-will-take-to-refuel-satellites-in-orbit3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Space Force in 2025 plans to launch to geostationary orbit three small satellites that will attempt to dock with a propellant tanker so they can be refueled in space.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to \u201ctest out pieces of the refueling infrastructure,\u201d Col. Joseph Roth, director of innovation and prototyping at U.S. Space Systems Command, told <i>SpaceNews<\/i> last week at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>The $50 million experiment, called Tetra-5, is run by the Space Force\u2019s Space Enterprise Consortium. Bids for the project closed earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Space Force in 2025 plans to launch to geostationary orbit three small satellites that will attempt to dock with a propellant tanker so they can be refueled in space. The idea is to \u201ctest out pieces of the refueling infrastructure,\u201d Col. Joseph Roth, director of innovation and prototyping at U.S. Space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138119","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=138119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}