{"id":62686,"date":"2019-04-03T00:21:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sstl-oss-work-together-on-smallsat-sar-payload-2\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T00:21:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T16:21:27","slug":"sstl-oss-work-together-on-smallsat-sar-payload-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sstl-oss-work-together-on-smallsat-sar-payload-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SSTL, OSS Work Together on Smallsat SAR Payload"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surrey Satellite Technology<\/strong> (SSTL) and <strong>Oxford Space Systems<\/strong> (OSS) have been awarded National Space Technology Program funding to develop a stowage-efficient Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload. This new technology aims to deliver a disruptive solution and be a key enabler for the next-generation of SAR services from orbit where there are currently no low volume, deployable SAR payload solutions that meet the price points and lead times of the NewSpace opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>OSS\u2019 expertise in deployable antennas combined with SSTL\u2019s experience with small satellites aims to address this global market opportunity. The SAR payload will be exclusively developed in the U.K. and will comprise of a stowage-efficient deployable antenna from OSS and a high bandwidth radar instrument and Radio Frequency (RF) system from SSTL. Successful completion of the project will enable the OSS antenna to be flown on a future demonstration mission from SSTL targeted for a 2021 launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis collaboration under U.K. Space Agency\u2019s NSTP Flagship funding allows us to focus on maturing a variant of our \u2018wrapped rib\u2019 antenna toward on-orbit demonstration,\u201d Oxford Space Systems Senior Commercial Strategist&nbsp;Shefali Sharma said. \u201cWe view this novel SAR payload as a key enabler for the next-generation of communications and SAR services from orbit. The antenna is highly scalable and tunable and has been specifically designed for volume production, targeting smallsat constellations. As such, it\u2019s suitable for a range of commercial opportunities not only here in the U.K., but globally too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and Oxford Space Systems (OSS) have been awarded National Space Technology Program funding to develop a stowage-efficient Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload. This new technology aims to deliver a disruptive solution and be a key enabler for the next-generation of SAR services from orbit where there are currently no low volume, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62687,"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-62686","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\/62686"}],"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=62686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}