{"id":51300,"date":"2024-05-10T18:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T10:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-partners-with-loft-orbital-for-nasa-communications-services-project\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T18:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T10:38:22","slug":"viasat-partners-with-loft-orbital-for-nasa-communications-services-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-partners-with-loft-orbital-for-nasa-communications-services-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Partners With Loft Orbital for NASA Communications Services Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Viasat <\/b>has selected <b>Loft Orbital<\/b> as its partner for work on the Real-Time Space Relay (RTSR) service for<strong> NASA<\/strong>. Under this deal, Viasat\u2019s Ka-band space terminal will be integrated on a Loft spacecraft along with multiple commercial payloads.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration is part of Viasat\u2019s work for NASA\u2019s Communications Services Project. Viasat received a $53.3 million award in 2022 to demonstrate a radio frequency Geostationary Ka-band relay network. The CSP is evaluating commercial capabilities for near-Earth communications to replace the aging Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is anticipated to launch in Fall 2025. Viasat hopes it will demonstrate how the will Viasat RTSR service enhances Loft Orbital\u2019s space infrastructure offering with a new real-time connectivity resource.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoft is proud to partner with Viasat on NASA\u2019s Communications Services Project to provide the infrastructure for this important capability,\u201d said Loft CEO Pierre-Damien Vaujour. \u201cThe addition of Viasat\u2019s relay service to our space infrastructure will let our virtual mission customers deploying AI applications have continuous real-time access to their mission for time-critical applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, Viasat also selected Rocket Lab for work on the CSP. Rocket Lab will provide a spacecraft bus and mission operation support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat has selected Loft Orbital as its partner for work on the Real-Time Space Relay (RTSR) service for NASA. Under this deal, Viasat\u2019s Ka-band space terminal will be integrated on a Loft spacecraft along with multiple commercial payloads. The demonstration is part of Viasat\u2019s work for NASA\u2019s Communications Services Project. Viasat received a $53.3 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51301,"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-51300","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\/51300"}],"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=51300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}