{"id":177650,"date":"2023-12-07T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/capella-to-use-spacex-for-two-acadia-satellite-launches"},"modified":"2023-12-07T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:22:58","slug":"capella-to-use-spacex-for-two-acadia-satellite-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/capella-to-use-spacex-for-two-acadia-satellite-launches","title":{"rendered":"Capella to use SpaceX for two Acadia satellite launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/capella-to-use-spacex-for-two-acadia-satellite-launches.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Capella Space will launch two radar imaging satellites on SpaceX rideshare missions after an Electron launch failure disrupted its deployment plans.<\/p>\n<p>Capella announced Dec. 5 that it had arranged to fly two of its Acadia satellites on SpaceX rideshare missions in the first half of 2024. Acadia-4 will fly on the Bandwagon-1 mission as soon as April 2024 while Acadia-5 will launch on Transporter-11 no earlier than June 2024. The Transporter-11 mission was arranged through launch services company Exolaunch.<\/p>\n<p>Capella said in a statement that the arrangements allow for a diversity of orbits for its spacecraft. Bandwagon-1 is the first of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/spacex-to-offer-mid-inclination-smallsat-rideshare-launches\/\">a new line of dedicated rideshare missions that SpaceX announced earlier this year<\/a> that will go to mid-inclination orbits, rather than sun-synchronous orbits accessed by Transporter missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Capella Space will launch two radar imaging satellites on SpaceX rideshare missions after an Electron launch failure disrupted its deployment plans. Capella announced Dec. 5 that it had arranged to fly two of its Acadia satellites on SpaceX rideshare missions in the first half of 2024. Acadia-4 will fly on the Bandwagon-1 mission [\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-177650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177650","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=177650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}