{"id":52506,"date":"2023-10-20T18:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T10:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/horizon-wins-uksa-grant-for-amber-mission\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T10:45:06","slug":"horizon-wins-uksa-grant-for-amber-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/horizon-wins-uksa-grant-for-amber-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon Wins UKSA Grant for Amber Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>The UK Space Agency<\/strong> (UKSA) is giving a \u00a31.2 million ($1.46 million) grant to <strong>Horizon Technologies<\/strong> for the Amber Phoenix Mission as the UK Government looks to boost its capabilities in the area of maritime intelligence. The&nbsp;<em>Phoenix Mission<\/em>&nbsp;will see another Amber RF (Radio Frequency) Earth Observation (EO) payload launched into orbit in mid-2024.<\/p>\n<p>Amber aims to bring something new in the arena of EO constellations. Horizon\u2019s Amber payload detects, geolocates, and demodulates maritime RF (Radars and SatPhones) signals from \u2018dark vessels\u2019. Amber is a maritime intelligence data service. Amber is \u2018always on\u2019, and every Amber satellite\/payload continuously covers about 3 percent of the world\u2019s surface at all times. The Amber Phoenix Mission satellite is to be the first of a proposed constellation of over 20 Amber payloads in orbit to provide worldwide RF data to the JMSC and other customers with 30-minute latency.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Horizon Technologies\u2019 original Amber payload was one of eight small satellites lost on the <strong>Virgin Orbit<\/strong> failed launch in January this year. This was part of the <strong>Satellite Applications Catapult<\/strong> IOD-3 program for which Horizon Technologies was competitively selected in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTracking vessels attempting to avoid detection is a complex challenge, but one that Horizon Technologies can help solve with their ground-breaking technology. Our support for the new Amber Phoenix Mission will develop a new capability to improve space-based maritime intelligence data services and catalyst further investment into the growing UK space sector. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing Horizon Technologies launch many more satellites in the future,\u201d<strong> Paul Bate, CEO, UKSA, said in a statement. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is giving a \u00a31.2 million ($1.46 million) grant to Horizon Technologies for the Amber Phoenix Mission as the UK Government looks to boost its capabilities in the area of maritime intelligence. The&nbsp;Phoenix Mission&nbsp;will see another Amber RF (Radio Frequency) Earth Observation (EO) payload launched into orbit in mid-2024. Amber aims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52508,"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-52506","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\/52506"}],"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=52506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}