{"id":890446,"date":"2026-09-10T11:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/890446\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:54:14","slug":"neworbit-claims-launch-slot-for-commercial-vleo-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/890446\/","title":{"rendered":"NewOrbit claims launch slot for commercial VLEO mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 UK startup NewOrbit announced plans Sept. 10 to send NEO-1, a rideshare mission, to very low Earth orbit (VLEO) in the third quarter of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now to read<br \/>3 free articles this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly Editor\u2019s Choice, SpaceNews This Week and Opinions newsletters. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/debra-werner\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/debra_werner-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDebra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nDebra earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master\u2019s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/debra-werner\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Debra Werner\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 UK startup NewOrbit announced plans Sept. 10 to send NEO-1, a rideshare mission, to very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,308677,308678,66,6089,306,283762],"class_list":["post-890446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-genesia-corp","tag-neworbit-space","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-space","tag-very-low-earth-orbit-vleo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}