Raytheon Technologies<\/b> has tapped CesiumAstro<\/b> to supply phased array communications payloads to support its contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.<\/p>\n
CesiumAstro will provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array (AESA) radio frequency (RF) communications payload for Raytheon\u2019s seven-vehicle missile tracking satellite constellation. CesiumAstro said it will be the first Ka-band, multi-beam communications system in the SDA\u2019s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The array is software-defined and designed to provide resilient, low-latency, high- volume data transport to simultaneous users.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese types of missions require speed and resilience,\u201d said David Broadbent, president of Space and C2 at Raytheon Intelligence and Space. \u201cBy integrating AESA technology as part of our overall solution, we are setting an unprecedented standard, allowing for the swift transfer of critical information and giving our military forces a decisive advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raytheon announced the SDA contract, worth more than $250 million, in March. Raytheon\u2019s satellites will feature Raytheon\u2019s Wide Field of View overhead persistent infrared sensor, and technology from two of Raytheon\u2019s previous acquisitions \u2014 Blue Canyon Technologies\u2018 Saturn-class microsatellite bus, and Seakr Engineering\u2018s electronics payload. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are proud to provide the first AESA for the PWSA, enabling multi-beam RF mission data support for the warfighter,\u201d commented Shey Sabripour, founder and CEO of CesiumAstro. <\/p>\n
CesiumAstro previously received an SDA award to advance the company\u2019s multi-beam L-band active electronically scanned array antenna, which is Link-16 compatible. This new contract announced Thursday, however, is for the company\u2019s Ka-band array. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Raytheon Technologies has tapped CesiumAstro to supply phased array communications payloads to support its contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer. CesiumAstro will provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array (AESA) radio frequency (RF) communications payload for Raytheon\u2019s seven-vehicle missile tracking satellite constellation. CesiumAstro said it will be the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53504,"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-53503","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\/53503"}],"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=53503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}