{"id":72639,"date":"2017-09-15T00:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/nasa-tells-ssl-and-tethers-unlimited-to-move-forward-on-orbital-assembly-system"},"modified":"2017-09-15T00:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:22:29","slug":"nasa-tells-ssl-and-tethers-unlimited-to-move-forward-on-orbital-assembly-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/nasa-tells-ssl-and-tethers-unlimited-to-move-forward-on-orbital-assembly-system","title":{"rendered":"NASA tells SSL and Tethers Unlimited to move forward on orbital assembly system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y6n5dRdIHVI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>California-based SSL, formerly known as Space Systems Loral, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sslmda.com\/html\/pressreleases\/pr20170911.php\">it\u2019ll receive continued funding from NASA<\/a> for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/tethers-unlimited-firmamentum-manufacturing\/\">on-orbit satellite assembly program known as Dragonfly<\/a>. SSL and its partners, including Bothell, Wash.-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tethers.com\/\">Tethers Unlimited<\/a>, recently completed a successful ground demonstration of the Dragonfly system, which is designed to assemble pieces of space hardware in orbit robotically. The next step is to move forward with a detailed design for a semi-autonomous assembly system that could be sent into space sometime in the 2020s. Check out this 11-second video clip about the Dragonfly\u2019s ground test:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/nasa-tells-ssl-tethers-unlimited-move-forward-orbital-assembly-system\/\">https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2017\/nasa-tells-ssl-tethers-unlimit...ly-system\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California-based SSL, formerly known as Space Systems Loral, says it\u2019ll receive continued funding from NASA for an on-orbit satellite assembly program known as Dragonfly. SSL and its partners, including Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited, recently completed a successful ground demonstration of the Dragonfly system, which is designed to assemble pieces of space hardware in orbit robotically. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72639","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=72639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}