{"id":59088,"date":"2020-09-02T19:59:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T11:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-completes-phased-array-test-with-ball-aerospace-wins-sda-contract\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T11:59:22","slug":"lockheed-martin-completes-phased-array-test-with-ball-aerospace-wins-sda-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-completes-phased-array-test-with-ball-aerospace-wins-sda-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Completes Phased Array Test With Ball Aerospace, Wins SDA Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> and <strong>Ball Aerospace<\/strong> successfully completed a phased array transmit test for a Multi-Band, Multi-Mission (MBMM) antenna. This is a milestone for the <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong>\u2019s MBMM program, as it moves the team one step closer to a full end-to-end satcom demonstration. This transmit test follows a successful receive test from February.<\/p>\n<p>MBMM helps enable multiple satellites to simultaneously connect with a single-phased array antenna system using multiple frequencies. It increases throughput, while also shrinking the antenna\u2019s footprint.&nbsp; The prototype antenna, awarded by the Defense Innovation Unit in April 2019, features technologies like Lockheed Martin\u2019s Horizon satellite scheduler, Ball Aerospace\u2019s modular subarray and panel design, and <strong>Kratos<\/strong> RT Logic digital signal processing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBall Aerospace has targeted investment in the core phased array technologies required to allow MBMM to address the Space Force\u2019s mission needs while providing an affordable full system solution,\u201d said Jake Sauer, vice president and general manager, Tactical Solutions, Ball Aerospace. \u201cWith the successful completion of the transmit test, we are looking forward to the full end-to-end mission demonstration of the phased array capability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the <strong>Space Development Agency<\/strong> (SDA) awarded a Tranche 0 contract of the Space Transport Layer to <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> on Tuesday. This contract is for the demonstration of a mesh network of 10 small satellites that link terrestrial warfighting domains to space sensors. The satellites are targeted to launch in two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace successfully completed a phased array transmit test for a Multi-Band, Multi-Mission (MBMM) antenna. This is a milestone for the U.S. Space Force\u2019s MBMM program, as it moves the team one step closer to a full end-to-end satcom demonstration. This transmit test follows a successful receive test from February. MBMM helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59089,"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-59088","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\/59088"}],"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=59088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}