{"id":241636,"date":"2026-07-27T13:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/orbes-unveils-exo-orb-and-agreement-with-symphony-space"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:07:02","slug":"orbes-unveils-exo-orb-and-agreement-with-symphony-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/orbes-unveils-exo-orb-and-agreement-with-symphony-space","title":{"rendered":"Orbes unveils Exo-ORB and agreement with Symphony Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/orbes-unveils-exo-orb-and-agreement-with-symphony-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Southern California startup Orbes announced an agreement July 27 to send Exo-ORB, a free-flying satellite, to gather imagery of an uncrewed Symphony Space station.<\/p>\n<p>Exo-ORB, which is roughly the size of a 12-unit cubesat, will launch alongside Prelude, Symphony Space\u2019s demonstration mission, in late 2027 or early 2028. Once in orbit, Exo-ORB will move 10 to 20 meters from Symphony Space\u2019s station to capture and downlink imagery, Orbes CEO Anna Shaposhnik told SpaceNews.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent collisions, Exo-ORB will be equipped with cold gas thrusters, iodine thrusters and reaction wheels. \u201cWe have the [guidance, navigation and control] GNC in place to keep it safe,\u201d Shaposhnik said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Southern California startup Orbes announced an agreement July 27 to send Exo-ORB, a free-flying satellite, to gather imagery of an uncrewed Symphony Space station. Exo-ORB, which is roughly the size of a 12-unit cubesat, will launch alongside Prelude, Symphony Space\u2019s demonstration mission, in late 2027 or early 2028. Once in orbit, Exo-ORB [\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-241636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241636","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=241636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}