{"id":9379,"date":"2013-12-12T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9379"},"modified":"2013-12-12T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:24:48","slug":"darpa-designs-giant-foldable-satellite-capable-of-surveiling-40-of-earth-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/darpa-designs-giant-foldable-satellite-capable-of-surveiling-40-of-earth-video","title":{"rendered":"DARPA designs giant foldable satellite capable of surveiling 40% of Earth (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/author\/amcduffee\/\">Allen McDuffee<\/a> <\/cite><\/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\/9379?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spying could become much easier if a new lightweight, folding satellite concept gets off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Darpa, the military\u2019s futuristic research agency, says it has plans to \u201cbreak the glass ceiling\u201d of space telescopes by shooting a new design into orbit that\u2019s made of plastic and unfolds into a mammoth satellite that would dwarf the world\u2019s most famous telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>Darpa\u2019s Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) program redesigns the traditional glass telescope into an orbital telescope that\u2019s bigger and lighter than previous imaging satellites, making it easier to spy on larger areas and for longer periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>Launched as a tightly packed cluster of petals 20 feet in diameter, MOIRE stretches to 68 feet across once it reaches 22,000 miles above the earth. From orbit, MOIRE could view approximately 40 percent of the earth\u2019s surface at once while recording high resolution images and video, making it the ultimate spying satellite (Darpa notes that it could also be beneficial in weather forecasting and disaster response).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2013\/12\/giant-folding-satellite\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen McDuffee Spying could become much easier if a new lightweight, folding satellite concept gets off the ground. Darpa, the military\u2019s futuristic research agency, says it has plans to \u201cbreak the glass ceiling\u201d of space telescopes by shooting a new design into orbit that\u2019s made of plastic and unfolds into a mammoth satellite that would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}