{"id":56795,"date":"2021-08-24T18:26:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/canada-approves-northstar-earth-space-52-satellite-constellation\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:26:59","slug":"canada-approves-northstar-earth-space-52-satellite-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/canada-approves-northstar-earth-space-52-satellite-constellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Approves NorthStar Earth &#038; Space 52-Satellite Constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>NorthStar Earth &amp; Space<\/strong> has received \u201capproval in principle\u201d from Canadian authorities for its planned 52-satellite constellation for Earth Observation (EO) uses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company announced Tuesday that it has received approval from the <strong>Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada<\/strong> (ISED) to use its requested Ka-band and X-band radio-frequency ranges. The ISED approval in principle confirms NorthStar\u2019s Canadian spectrum application is in full compliance with the regulations of the I<strong>nternational Telecommunication Union<\/strong> (ITU).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The planned satellite constellation involves 12 initial \u201cSkylark\u201d satellites with optical sensors for Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services. 40 additional satellites will be designed with additional optical sensors and a combination of hyperspectral and infrared sensors for EO. NorthStar Earth and Space is backed by the governments of Canada and Quebec, <strong>Telesystem Space<\/strong>, the Space Alliance (<strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> and <strong>Telespazio<\/strong>), and others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs NorthStar is advancing towards the launch of its first three Skylark satellites, this authorization from ISED to operate NorthStar\u2019s planned 52-satellite constellation with the radio-frequency spectrum that we\u2019ll need is an important milestone\u201d said Stewart Bain, CEO of NorthStar Earth &amp; Space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NorthStar Earth &amp; Space has received \u201capproval in principle\u201d from Canadian authorities for its planned 52-satellite constellation for Earth Observation (EO) uses.&nbsp; The company announced Tuesday that it has received approval from the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) to use its requested Ka-band and X-band radio-frequency ranges. The ISED approval in principle confirms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46668,"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-56795","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\/56795"}],"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=56795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}