{"id":162902,"date":"2023-04-27T20:24:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/light-steering-technologies-claims-1-25-million-air-force-contract"},"modified":"2023-04-27T20:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T01:24:45","slug":"light-steering-technologies-claims-1-25-million-air-force-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/light-steering-technologies-claims-1-25-million-air-force-contract","title":{"rendered":"Light Steering Technologies claims $1.25 million Air Force contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-steering-technologies-claims-1-25-million-air-force-contract.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013New Hampshire startup Light Steering Technologies won a $1.25 million U.S. Air Force contract for angular pointing technology with small satellite applications.<\/p>\n<p>Through the contract with AFWERX, the Air Force organization focused on innovation, LST aims to advance the Technology Readiness Level, or technological maturity, of its Multi-Axis Scanner. LST\u2019s Multi-Axis Scanner is a patented magnetic joint for gimbal-like capability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s compelling about the technology is we are minimizing the moving mass,\u201d Aaron Castillo, LST senior vice president of business development and program management, told <em>SpaceNews<\/em>. \u201cThis is achieved by actuating a mirror instead of the entire satellite bus or using a traditional gimbal mechanism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013New Hampshire startup Light Steering Technologies won a $1.25 million U.S. Air Force contract for angular pointing technology with small satellite applications. Through the contract with AFWERX, the Air Force organization focused on innovation, LST aims to advance the Technology Readiness Level, or technological maturity, of its Multi-Axis Scanner. LST\u2019s Multi-Axis Scanner is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162902","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}