{"id":32796,"date":"2016-12-19T10:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/3d-printing-enabled-altair-satellite-ready-to-launch-in-2017"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:01:05","slug":"3d-printing-enabled-altair-satellite-ready-to-launch-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/3d-printing-enabled-altair-satellite-ready-to-launch-in-2017","title":{"rendered":"3D printing enabled ALTAIR satellite ready to launch in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printing-enabled-altair-satellite-ready-to-launch-in-2017.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millennium Space Systems have reached a major development milestone for their ALTAIR satellite ahead of a proposed launch in March 2017. They have announced that the first satellite has completed development and been shipped. The satellite was enabled by additive manufacturing and has now gained flight qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Swanson, Millennium Space\u2019s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations program manager, explained the importance of reaching this target,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This flight qualification of our ALTAIR\u2122 spacecraft represents a key milestone in providing low-risk and very high-platform performance coupled with affordability as the company transitions to full-scale manufacturing of our ALTAIR\u2122 product line and anticipated ALTAIR\u2122 constellations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/news\/3d-printing-enabled-altair-satellite-ready-launch-2017-101372\/\">https:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/news\/3d-printing-enabled-alta...45;101372\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millennium Space Systems have reached a major development milestone for their ALTAIR satellite ahead of a proposed launch in March 2017. They have announced that the first satellite has completed development and been shipped. The satellite was enabled by additive manufacturing and has now gained flight qualification. Paul Swanson, Millennium Space\u2019s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56282,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796\/revisions\/56282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}