{"id":57228,"date":"2021-06-25T21:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/desch-hails-significant-us-army-contract-win-for-iridium\/"},"modified":"2021-06-25T21:50:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:50:16","slug":"desch-hails-significant-us-army-contract-win-for-iridium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/desch-hails-significant-us-army-contract-win-for-iridium\/","title":{"rendered":"Desch Hails Significant US Army Contract Win for Iridium"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_329012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329012\" style=\"width: 759px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-329012 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iridium-Army-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"759\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iridium-Army-Photo.jpg 759w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iridium-Army-Photo-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iridium-Army-Photo-211x200.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Iridium-Army-Photo-704x667.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-329012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of the Iridium payload to be hosted by another LEO constellation on behalf of the U.S. Army. Photo: Iridium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iridium<\/strong> has won a new $30 million contract from the United States Army, the company announced June 24. It will develop a payload to be hosted on small satellites that supports navigation systems, guidance and control for the GPS and GPS-denied precision systems. The new experimental Iridium payload is intended to be hosted by another LEO commercial satellite constellation, complementing the Iridium&nbsp;constellation\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Through this contract the US Army intends to develop this payload to support the concept of a rapidly deployable smallsat constellation to provide more effective sensor-to-soldier data transmission when in the field. The development of this new payload is based on Iridium Burst&nbsp;technology, a service that can transmit data to millions of enabled devices at a time from space.<\/p>\n<p>Iridium considers this a significant contract win. \u201cThis is one of the largest engineering contracts in Iridium\u2019s history, and we\u2019re pleased to once again bring the value of Iridium and our partner ecosystem to the fore at the request of the United States Army,\u201d Matt Desch, CEO, Iridium, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rendering of the Iridium payload to be hosted by another LEO constellation on behalf of the U.S. Army. Photo: Iridium Iridium has won a new $30 million contract from the United States Army, the company announced June 24. It will develop a payload to be hosted on small satellites that supports navigation systems, guidance [&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-57228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57228"}],"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=57228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}