{"id":50561,"date":"2024-09-13T01:56:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/xenesis-wins-sda-follow-up-deal-for-optical-terminals\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T01:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:56:19","slug":"xenesis-wins-sda-follow-up-deal-for-optical-terminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/xenesis-wins-sda-follow-up-deal-for-optical-terminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Xenesis Wins SDA Follow-Up Deal for Optical Terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xenesis<\/strong> has won a new Phase 2 contract from the <strong>Space Development Agency<\/strong> (SDA) for optical communications terminals. This effort kicked off in December 2023 and is a follow-on effort from an initial Phase 1 award in August 2022 for Xenesis\u2019 Adaptable Optical Satellite Terminal Concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Xenesis announced the deal on Sept. 11. It is a 12-month project is set to take the optical terminal from a preliminary design stage to a conceptual design review with a TRL Level 5\/6 in preparation for commercialization.<\/p>\n<p>The terminal, dubbed the \u2018Xen-Hub,\u2019 is being built in accordance with SDA\u2019s OCTv3.1 and the newly released OCTv4.0 standards, providing interoperability with other vendors\u2019 optical terminals. SDA\u2019s OCT requirements are a defense industry standard for wavelength, frequency, operating channels, modulation, and SWAP-C design considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Xenesis and its partner Space Micro (now part of Voyager Space\u2019s Technology Segment) will take the flexible Xen-Hub designed in Phase I for SDA, and develop its 10 Gbps bandwidth and tailor it to show compatibility with other 2.5 Gbps and below terminals allowing seamless communications between government and commercial satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an honor to have been selected for this partnership with the SDA especially in such an incredibly competitive space. We are working closely with our partner SMI\/Voyager Space on building out our Xen-Hub as quickly and efficiently as possible to help accelerate timelines in support of SDA\u2019s mission and goals to sustain resilient, low-latency, and inherently secure military space operations for U.S. national security,\u201d Victoria Philip, chief of staff, Xenesis, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xenesis has won a new Phase 2 contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) for optical communications terminals. This effort kicked off in December 2023 and is a follow-on effort from an initial Phase 1 award in August 2022 for Xenesis\u2019 Adaptable Optical Satellite Terminal Concepts. Xenesis announced the deal on Sept. 11. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50563,"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-50561","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\/50561"}],"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=50561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}