{"id":296357,"date":"2025-12-03T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296357\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:44:08","slug":"satellite-intelligence-project-in-alton-celebrates-space-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296357\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite intelligence project in Alton celebrates space launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The launch, which was originally scheduled for 2024, was part of the SpaceX Transporter-15 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three satellites, equipped with ultra-wideband radio frequency (RF) sensors, will orbit the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of 350 miles (560km).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are teamed with a fourth, Finnish-designed synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite that can see through darkness and clouds, BAE Systems said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The &#8220;novel RF and SAR cluster&#8221; will be trialled with potential customers, including the UK government, over the coming months, the company added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The launch, which was originally scheduled for 2024, was part of the SpaceX Transporter-15 mission from Vandenberg Space&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-296357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}