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Rogue Announces Full Manifest of Their Next Mission: OTP-2
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Rogue Announces Full Manifest of Their Next Mission: OTP-2

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LACONIA, NH, November 04, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ — Rogue Space Systems Corporation (Rogue) announces its next mission featuring new mission capabilities and a compliment of commercial hosted payloads. The OTP-2 spacecraft is planned to launch NET February 2025. The primary objective of this mission will be the testing of Rogue’s developments in mission operations and algorithms for future In-Space Logistics services, requiring close-proximity maneuvering and docking. OTP-2 will have one undisclosed payload, a new propulsion system, an encryption system, a new edge computing device and 5 optical sensors in addition to the spacecraft’s star tracker. Additionally, Rogue will carry out the demonstration and on-orbit testing of these four cutting-edge payloads that will uniquely augment OTP-2.

Rogue will be flying their next generation Scalable Compute Platform (SCP) to provide critical computer vision, autonomy, and AI computations through Edge Computing. Rogue will be using the SCP as a testbed for algorithms that will support future RPOD and Logistics operations like the new ASTRA autonomy system. Rouge will be testing ASTRA’s ability to autonomously maintain the spacecraft’s health and execute operational “goals” given to it by the operators, selecting appropriate actions to balance competing priorities and opportunities. Rogue is also offering commercial software hosting on board the SCP to customers to test out their algorithms in space. This effort will be supported by a customer test bench at Rogue HQ to confirm suitability before uploading to the satellite. https://rogue.space

OTP-2 will also have 5 cameras of two classes that directly interface with the SCP. Rogue anticipates using OTP-2 as a cooperative target for the next RPO capable mission OTP-3 planned for launch in 2026.

“This is a foundational next step for Rogue Space Systems, propelling us forward towards our vision of providing in space logistics services, and for establishing our credibility as a reliable in-space service provider” says Rogue’s CEO, Jon Beam.

In addition to Rogue’s own custom technology, OTP-2 will be flying three other hosted payloads for some of the most exciting newcomers to the space market.

Forward Edge AI will be flying their new Isidore Quantum® Space Encryptor to demonstrate protocol free quantum resistant encryption in a very small form factor. https://forwardedge.ai/product/

IVO Limited will be flying their new revolutionary Quantum Drive to demonstrate the world’s first propellant free pure electric propulsion system. http://ivolimited.us

Rogue CRO Brent Abbott states “Our hosting program gives Rogue a unique perspective on new technologies that could enable our cutting-edge logistics offerings.”

Customers that missed flying with Rogue on OTP-2 may still have the opportunity to fly with us on OTP-3, planned to launch in 2026. This will be a roughly 200kg bus with planned RPO/6DOF maneuvering capability, tremendous Delta-V, and a docking port for refueling and “maneuver without regret”.

About Rogue Space Systems Corporation

Rogue Space Systems Corporation specializes in enabling the industrialization of space by offering supportive in-space logistics services. This is achieved by providing economic destinations and last-mile logistics. Our Waypoint™ stations will serve as multi-tenant platforms that host manufacturing, science experiments, communications, computing, and materiel & fuel logistics capabilities. Our Orbots™ will serve as a robotic workforce, enabling the flow of raw materials and finished goods that enable a dynamic economy in space. Our Orblock™ payload containers will allow for efficient transfer of both complex payloads and materiel. In partnership with launch and down mass companies, we make a circular economy and dynamic operations in space possible.

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Six rogue planets spotted by James Webb Telescope in nearby nebula
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Six rogue planets spotted by James Webb Telescope in nearby nebula

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Planetary Delights: A rogue planet is an interstellar body with planetary mass that is not gravitationally bound to any “parent” star or star-like object. The exact process by which rogue planets form is still under debate, but recent observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope may help dispel some of the mysteries surrounding these elusive galactic wanderers.

NASA estimates that trillions of rogue planets could be hidden within a single galaxy, including our own Milky Way. A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University recently discovered six new wandering worlds by focusing the powerful infrared instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope on a young nebula located a thousand light-years away, known as NGC 1333.

The nearby nebula resides in the Perseus constellation and is an active cluster where new stars are being formed. However, the objects spotted by Johns Hopkins scientists aren’t stars, even though they may have formed in a similar way. The six rogue planets are “slightly” larger than Jupiter, the researchers explained, and they provide new evidence that the same process that gives birth to stars could also be a common way for planets to form.

“We are probing the very limits of the star forming process,” astrophysicist Adam Langeveld noted. “If you have an object that looks like a young Jupiter, is it possible that it could have become a star under the right conditions?”

Stars form when a cloud of gas and dust collapses into a common center of gravity, a process that ultimately ignites nuclear fusion, allowing the star to burn for potentially billions of years. If the original cloud isn’t large enough, the resulting object may become a “failed” star, known as a brown dwarf. A failed star is too hot to be considered a planet but isn’t massive enough to ignite nuclear fusion.

Planets in “traditional” planetary systems are typically formed from a dust disk surrounding the host star. According to the new study, James Webb observations have now confirmed that planetary-mass objects can also form the same way stars do. No object weighing less than five Jupiter masses was revealed by the telescope, which is considered a “strong indication” that any stellar body lighter than this threshold is more likely to form in the way planets in our solar system did.

The lightest rogue planet discovered by the Johns Hopkins researchers is also the most intriguing. It has an estimated mass of five Jupiters and is surrounded by its own dusty disk. The presence of this disk suggests that the object most likely formed like a star and that it could potentially form other orbiting “mini” planets over time.

According to study co-author Alexander Scholz, the system could be considered a “nursery of a miniature planetary system, on a scale much smaller than our solar system.”