{"id":18485,"date":"2018-06-06T01:17:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T17:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/tethers-unlimited-delivers-tiny-but-powerful-satellite-transmitter-for-army\/"},"modified":"2018-06-06T01:17:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T17:17:24","slug":"tethers-unlimited-delivers-tiny-but-powerful-satellite-transmitter-for-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/tethers-unlimited-delivers-tiny-but-powerful-satellite-transmitter-for-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Tethers Unlimited delivers tiny but powerful satellite transmitter for Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_424724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-424724\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-424724\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180605-swift-630x425.jpg\" alt=\"SWIFT-KTX transmitter\" width=\"630\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180605-swift-630x425.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180605-swift.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-424724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SWIFT-KTX transmitter helps tiny satellites deliver big data. (Tethers Unlimited Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it\u2019s delivered the first flight unit of a K-band radio transmitter that\u2019s designed for use on CubeSat satellites as small as a loaf of bread.<\/p>\n<p>The SWIFT-KTX transmitter builds upon Tethers Unlimited\u2019s software-defined radio platform to transmit data at rates exceeding 100 megabits per second, the company said today in a news release. That rate is roughly on par with typical cable connection speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Tethers Unlimited developed the transmitter under a Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Army\u2019s Space and Missile Defense Command. The company said the first flight unit was delivered to a confidential customer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Tethers Unlimited\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wPvi2vadm-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rob Hoyt, Tethers Unlimited\u2019s CEO and chairman, said K-band radio transmissions represent a new frontier for small-satellite communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe capabilities of small satellites such as CubeSats&nbsp;and nanosatellites to collect images, radar data and other large data sets is advancing rapidly, but the UHF and S-band frequencies typically used for small satellite missions are too slow and have become too congested to allow these data to be delivered to users on the ground in a timely manner,\u201d Hoyt explained.<\/p>\n<p>The SWIFT-KTX system can help small satellites \u201cbreak through these barriers and deliver big data to customers rapidly and efficiently,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tethers Unlimited is working with Canada-based Orbital Research to develop a receiver that will complement the transmitter on small satellites. The receiver is due to become available later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SWIFT-KTX transmitter helps tiny satellites deliver big data. (Tethers Unlimited Photo) Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it\u2019s delivered the first flight unit of a K-band radio transmitter that\u2019s designed for use on CubeSat satellites as small as a loaf of bread. The SWIFT-KTX transmitter builds upon Tethers Unlimited\u2019s software-defined radio platform to transmit data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1608,439,5226,4803,5227,20,4828,4793],"class_list":["post-18485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cubesats","tag-military","tag-orbital-research","tag-radio","tag-sate","tag-satellite","tag-software-defined-network","tag-tethers-unlimited"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}