{"id":180169,"date":"2024-01-09T20:28:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/muon-space-tapped-by-air-force-for-cloud-characterization-from-space"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:28:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:28:54","slug":"muon-space-tapped-by-air-force-for-cloud-characterization-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/muon-space-tapped-by-air-force-for-cloud-characterization-from-space","title":{"rendered":"Muon Space tapped by Air Force for cloud characterization from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/muon-space-tapped-by-air-force-for-cloud-characterization-from-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The startup Muon Space announced Jan. 9 it will explore the use of climate-monitoring satellites to capture cloud characterization data for the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain View, California-based company, founded in 2021, is developing small satellites to monitor Earth\u2019s climate and ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 contract from the U.S. Air Force, Muon Space \u201cwill perform a feasibility study to determine the benefit of modifying its multispectral electro-optical infrared (EO\/IR) instrument to support the Department of Defense\u2019s cloud characterization observation capability,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The startup Muon Space announced Jan. 9 it will explore the use of climate-monitoring satellites to capture cloud characterization data for the U.S. Air Force. The Mountain View, California-based company, founded in 2021, is developing small satellites to monitor Earth\u2019s climate and ecosystems. Under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 1 contract from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,493,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-climatology","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180169","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=180169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}