{"id":177512,"date":"2023-12-06T03:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T09:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/orbit-fab-and-australias-space-machines-company-cooperate-on-in-orbit-servicing"},"modified":"2023-12-06T03:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T09:24:19","slug":"orbit-fab-and-australias-space-machines-company-cooperate-on-in-orbit-servicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/orbit-fab-and-australias-space-machines-company-cooperate-on-in-orbit-servicing","title":{"rendered":"Orbit Fab and Australia\u2019s Space Machines Company cooperate on in-orbit servicing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/orbit-fab-and-australias-space-machines-company-cooperate-on-in-orbit-servicing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a><\/a>WASHINGTON \u2013 Australian in-space servicing startup Space Machines Company announced plans Dec. 5 to work with U.S. on-orbit refueling startup Orbit Fab to validate and demonstrate key technologies.<\/p>\n<p>SMC is the first non-U.S. customer to use Orbit Fab\u2019s fiducial alignment markers. The markers are painted on SMC\u2019s Optimus Orbital Servicing Vehicle, which is set to launch in early 2024 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare flight.<\/p>\n<p>Orbit Fab\u2019s fiducial markers are designed to act like a QR code, ensuring, for example, that a fuel shuttle replenishes the correct client. The fiducial markers also ensure proper spacecraft alignment for docking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Australian in-space servicing startup Space Machines Company announced plans Dec. 5 to work with U.S. on-orbit refueling startup Orbit Fab to validate and demonstrate key technologies. SMC is the first non-U.S. customer to use Orbit Fab\u2019s fiducial alignment markers. The markers are painted on SMC\u2019s Optimus Orbital Servicing Vehicle, which is set to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177512","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}