{"id":81230,"date":"2018-08-02T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/made-in-spaces-archinaut-could-build-big-power-systems-for-small-satellites"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:00:53","slug":"made-in-spaces-archinaut-could-build-big-power-systems-for-small-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/made-in-spaces-archinaut-could-build-big-power-systems-for-small-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Made In Space\u2019s \u2018Archinaut\u2019 Could Build Big Power Systems for Small Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/made-in-spaces-archinaut-could-build-big-power-systems-for-small-satellites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small satellites will soon pack an outsize power punch, if one company\u2019s plans come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first big jobs for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/37767-made-in-space-archinaut-vacuum-chamber-test.html\">Archinaut in-space assembly robot<\/a> being developed by California startup Made In Space may involve outfitting small satellites with large solar-power systems in Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Such work could boost the power potential of spacecraft in the 330-lb. to 660-lb. (150 to 300 kilograms) range by a factor of five or more, allowing them to take on duties previously limited to larger satellites, company representatives said. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16504-satellite-quiz-earth-orbiters.html\">Satellite Quiz: How Well Do You Know What\u2019s Orbiting Earth?<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41341-archinaut-made-in-space-small-satellite-power.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/41341-archinaut-made-in-space-small-satellite-power.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small satellites will soon pack an outsize power punch, if one company\u2019s plans come to fruition. One of the first big jobs for the Archinaut in-space assembly robot being developed by California startup Made In Space may involve outfitting small satellites with large solar-power systems in Earth orbit. Such work could boost the power potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81230","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=81230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81323,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81230\/revisions\/81323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}