{"id":52088,"date":"2024-01-02T21:46:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mbryonics-to-build-optical-terminal-for-darpas-space-bacn-program\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T21:46:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T13:46:03","slug":"mbryonics-to-build-optical-terminal-for-darpas-space-bacn-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mbryonics-to-build-optical-terminal-for-darpas-space-bacn-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbryonics to Build Optical Terminal for DARPA\u2019s Space-BACN Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <b>U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/b> (DARPA) awarded <strong>Mbryonics<\/strong> a contract to deliver an optical terminal for the second phase of the Space-BACN program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Space-BACN is a U.S. Department of Defense program to foster interoperable technologies that can enable seamless communication between government and commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mbryonics, based in Ireland, participated in Phase 1 of the program, awarded in August of 2022. The company said on Tuesday that it delivered on Phase 1 within 14 months. The company has a product line of optical inter-satellite links and Earth links called StarCom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Phase 2, Mbryonics will design and deliver an optical terminal. The company will coordinate with modem and satellite constellation operators over a 21-month performance period to accelerate the development of inter-satellite communications capable of connecting LEO constellations using different communications protocols.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mbryonics CEO John Mackey commented: \u201cThis collaboration supports the Space-BACN vision for seamless interconnectivity between government and commercial systems, fortifying a resilient space layer for JADC2 operations. This contract award solidifies Mbryonics\u2019 leadership in industrial-edge optical communications, affirming our strategy of pioneering fiber-coupled photonic systems.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Mbryonics a contract to deliver an optical terminal for the second phase of the Space-BACN program.&nbsp; Space-BACN is a U.S. Department of Defense program to foster interoperable technologies that can enable seamless communication between government and commercial Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations.&nbsp; Mbryonics, based in Ireland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52091,"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-52088","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\/52088"}],"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=52088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}