{"id":196755,"date":"2008-03-27T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/27\/neat-tech-satellite-swarms\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:11:00","slug":"neat-tech-satellite-swarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/27\/neat-tech-satellite-swarms\/","title":{"rendered":"Neat Tech: Satellite Swarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, as opposed to launching one big satellite, like the one that the navy had to shoot down, you launch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/14\/222252\/fractions-in-action-satellites-of-the-future.html\">fractionated satellites<\/a>, basically a cluster that orbit close to one another, and together provide the capabilities of a single larger satellite.<\/p>\n<p>It means that a launch or satellite failure won&#8217;t remove the capability, though it may reduce performance somewhat. <\/p>\n<p>The program is from DARPA, and it&#8217;s called &#8220;System F6&#8221; (future, flexible, fast, fractionated, free-flying spacecraft united by information exchange).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, as opposed to launching one big satellite, like the one that the navy had to shoot down, you launch fractionated satellites, basically a cluster that orbit close to one another, and together provide the capabilities of a single larger satellite. It means that a launch or satellite failure won&#8217;t remove the capability, though it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}