{"id":54037,"date":"2023-02-09T17:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mynaric-delivers-laser-terminals-to-telesat-for-darpa-blackjack-program\/"},"modified":"2023-02-09T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:56:14","slug":"mynaric-delivers-laser-terminals-to-telesat-for-darpa-blackjack-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mynaric-delivers-laser-terminals-to-telesat-for-darpa-blackjack-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Mynaric Delivers Laser Terminals to Telesat for DARPA Blackjack program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mynaric<\/strong> has delivered multiple lasercom terminals to <strong>Telesat<\/strong> for the operators\u2019 satellites involved in the <strong>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/strong>\u2019s (DARPA) Blackjack Track B program. The company announced Wednesday that it delivered multiple Condor Mk2 optical communications terminals to Telesat\u2019s government subsidiary, Telesat Government Solutions. This was Mynaric\u2019s first delivery for space-based optical terminals.<\/p>\n<p>Blackjack is a DARPA and U.S. Space Force program to leverage commercial LEO technology for a global high-speed network for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Telesat was contracted in 2020 to deliver two spacecraft buses to DARPA for a\u201crisk reduction flight to test optical inter-satellite link communications with government payloads in orbit.Telesat then subcontracted Mynaric to supply the terminals shortly after. The terminals were originally scheduled to be delivered in mid-2021.<\/p>\n<p>The terminals will now be mounted to Telesat\u2019s Croupier satellites and subsequently launched to space for the DARPA mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe delivery of flight-ready space products marks an important milestone in Mynaric\u2019s history as we get a big step closer to establishing space heritage within the next few months,\u201d said Bulent Altan, co-CEO of Mynaric. \u201cWe have prepared for this inaugural customer mission of our Condor product through extensive product development and testing by our team and close collaboration with the team at Telesat GS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New Co-CEO Mustafa Veziroglu commented that the company\u2019s laser communications products are on track for \u201csignificant production ramp up\u201d this year and Mynaric will be shipping flight-ready units to existing and prospective customers this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mynaric has delivered multiple lasercom terminals to Telesat for the operators\u2019 satellites involved in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s (DARPA) Blackjack Track B program. The company announced Wednesday that it delivered multiple Condor Mk2 optical communications terminals to Telesat\u2019s government subsidiary, Telesat Government Solutions. This was Mynaric\u2019s first delivery for space-based optical terminals. Blackjack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49565,"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-54037","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\/54037"}],"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=54037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}