{"id":18602,"date":"2018-03-14T18:31:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/tethers-unlimited-and-orbital-research-forge-partnership-for-small-satellite-radios\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T18:31:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T10:31:07","slug":"tethers-unlimited-and-orbital-research-forge-partnership-for-small-satellite-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/tethers-unlimited-and-orbital-research-forge-partnership-for-small-satellite-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"Tethers Unlimited and Orbital Research forge partnership for small-satellite radios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News brief:<\/strong> Burnaby, B.C.-based Orbital Research Inc. says it will build a space-based, 26 GHz Ka-band radio receiver for use on the SWIFT software-defined radios produced by Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited Inc. for small satellites. \u201cTogether we can help smallsat ventures get to market faster with exceptionally high throughput and flexibility for challenging mission and regulatory environments,\u201d Orbital Research CEO Ian McEachern said today in a news release. Last month, Tethers Unlimited said it\u2019s been awarded a $1 million grant by the Army\u2019s Space and Missile Defense Center to finish development of the SWIFT radio platform.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_404699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-404699\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-404699\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180314-swift-630x458.jpg\" alt=\"SWIFT-KTX\" width=\"630\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180314-swift-630x458.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180314-swift-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180314-swift.jpg 1026w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-404699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tethers Unlimited\u2019s prototype module for the SWIFT-KTX software-defined radio is being used for waveguide interface testing. It\u2019s designed to transmit in the K\/Ka-band radio spectrum. (TUI Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News brief: Burnaby, B.C.-based Orbital Research Inc. says it will build a space-based, 26 GHz Ka-band radio receiver for use on the SWIFT software-defined radios produced by Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited Inc. for small satellites. \u201cTogether we can help smallsat ventures get to market faster with exceptionally high throughput and flexibility for challenging mission and [&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":[5226,4828,4793],"class_list":["post-18602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-orbital-research","tag-software-defined-network","tag-tethers-unlimited"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602"}],"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=18602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}