{"id":56073,"date":"2022-01-20T18:54:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T10:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-releases-new-large-aperture-space-to-ground-communication-antennas\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T18:54:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T10:54:18","slug":"viasat-releases-new-large-aperture-space-to-ground-communication-antennas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-releases-new-large-aperture-space-to-ground-communication-antennas\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Releases New Large-Aperture Space-to-Ground Communication Antennas"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viasat<\/strong> has released a new large-aperture antenna class for space-to-ground communication. The company said this is its most advanced class of large-aperture antennas and capable of supporting missions including Earth observation, crewed and uncrewed missions to the Moon and Mars, and defense initiatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new class of full-motion multi-band antennas ranges from 19.7 to 24.0 meters in diameter. It features a full-motion high-dynamic pedestal with precise tracking that will support current and future multi-orbit missions. It also has advanced modems that will support emerging industry standard interfaces and software defined radio frameworks for future virtualized architectures.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Leka, vice president and general manager of Antenna Systems said this class of antennas was built to support increased interest in earth observation, defense-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and deep space\/lunar link communications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt only requires a handful of Viasat\u2019s large-aperture antennas strategically positioned around the globe to provide constant connectivity, which could bring increased visibility to global space and defense agencies as well as to ground station-as-a-service providers looking to deploy a network of antennas that support upcoming missions with lunar direct-to-earth service and cislunar relay for future missions to the Moon and even Mars,\u201d Leka said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viasat has released a new large-aperture antenna class for space-to-ground communication. The company said this is its most advanced class of large-aperture antennas and capable of supporting missions including Earth observation, crewed and uncrewed missions to the Moon and Mars, and defense initiatives.&nbsp; The new class of full-motion multi-band antennas ranges from 19.7 to 24.0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56074,"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-56073","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\/56073"}],"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=56073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}