{"id":52925,"date":"2023-08-16T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-opens-new-ground-station-in-japan-at-infostellar-site\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:44:08","slug":"viasat-opens-new-ground-station-in-japan-at-infostellar-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-opens-new-ground-station-in-japan-at-infostellar-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Opens New Ground Station in Japan at Infostellar Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_375167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-375167\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-375167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Viasat_RTE_Japan-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Viasat's Real-Time Earth location in Japan. Photo: Viasat \" width=\"566\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Viasat_RTE_Japan-copy.jpg 566w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Viasat_RTE_Japan-copy-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Viasat_RTE_Japan-copy-195x200.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-375167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viasat\u2019s Real-Time Earth location in Japan. Photo: Viasat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Viasat <\/b>has opened a new ground station for its Real-Time Earth (RTE) service in Hokkaido, Japan, hosted at <b>Infostellar<\/b>\u2019s site. Viasat said the new 7.3 meter, Ka-band antenna will support high data rate remote sensing missions in polar and inclined orbits through the RTE network.<\/p>\n<p>Viasat\u2019s ground-station-as-a-service provides a fully managed ground network. The RTE RTE Ka-band footprint now includes sites in Sweden, Ghana, South Africa, and Australia. The company plans to expand the Ka-band capability with additional sites in Alaska and Argentina later this year. The RTE service provides global S- and X-band services at all sites.<\/p>\n<p>Interstellar commented that the partnership benefits both Viasat and Infostellar clients.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already proven our ability to rapidly integrate with a civilian space agency to receive Ka-band payloads over our fully automated commercial service and have multiple contracts with commercial satellite operators who understand the value proposition of Ka-band,\u201d said Steve Tanous, vice president of Real-Time Earth at Viasat. \u201cKa-band more than triples the capacity available to downlink earth observation data, compared to traditional high data rate X-band, which translates into more effective and cost-efficient passes for satellite operators.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat\u2019s Real-Time Earth location in Japan. Photo: Viasat Viasat has opened a new ground station for its Real-Time Earth (RTE) service in Hokkaido, Japan, hosted at Infostellar\u2019s site. Viasat said the new 7.3 meter, Ka-band antenna will support high data rate remote sensing missions in polar and inclined orbits through the RTE network. Viasat\u2019s ground-station-as-a-service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-52925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52925"}],"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=52925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}