{"id":48707,"date":"2025-08-01T00:45:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eycore-and-nanoavionics-to-deploy-sar-satellite-for-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:45:39","slug":"eycore-and-nanoavionics-to-deploy-sar-satellite-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eycore-and-nanoavionics-to-deploy-sar-satellite-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Eycore and NanoAvionics to Deploy SAR Satellite for Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Polish payload developer <strong>Eycore<\/strong> will fly its first synthetic aperture radar (SAR) demonstrator on a <strong>Kongsberg NanoAvionics<\/strong> satellite bus under a deal announced Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The flight will test Eycore\u2019s X-band radar on NanoAvionics\u2019 MP42 microsatellite bus, scheduled to launch on a SpaceX rideshare mission in the first quarter of 2026. Eycore has developed a deployable active phased-array antenna with five panels, one fixed and four unfolding in space to create a large aperture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The companies have also been working together on a satellite bus and next-generation payload that would offer even higher resolution, wider swath, longer imaging times, higher incidence angle, and other improvements. The goal is to develop an all-European, military-grade SAR solution for governments for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), border security, maritime domain awareness, and disaster response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartnering with a reliable bus provider like Kongsberg NanoAvionics lets us focus on perfecting our SAR technology while de-risking the platform, launch, and operations,\u201d said Tomasz Kusowski, Eycore co-founder. \u201cThis demonstrator is the springboard for high-performance European SAR satellites that will deliver tactical data for national security and defense applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish payload developer Eycore will fly its first synthetic aperture radar (SAR) demonstrator on a Kongsberg NanoAvionics satellite bus under a deal announced Thursday.&nbsp; The flight will test Eycore\u2019s X-band radar on NanoAvionics\u2019 MP42 microsatellite bus, scheduled to launch on a SpaceX rideshare mission in the first quarter of 2026. Eycore has developed a deployable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48710,"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":[],"class_list":["post-48707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48707"}],"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=48707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}