{"id":63545,"date":"2018-11-28T01:29:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telesats-leo-system-to-support-darpas-blackjack-program\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T01:29:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T17:29:19","slug":"telesats-leo-system-to-support-darpas-blackjack-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telesats-leo-system-to-support-darpas-blackjack-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Telesat\u2019s LEO System to Support DARPA\u2019s Blackjack Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/strong> (DARPA) has awarded a contract to <strong>Telesat<\/strong>, involving its commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. Telesat will undertake investigations that could lead to the <strong>Department of Defense<\/strong> (DOD) making greater use of commercial LEO satellite constellations, such as Telesat\u2019s LEO system, for DOD\u2019s future space-based communications. The investigations will include evaluating the advantages of DOD using the same spacecraft buses as those Telesat will use in its LEO constellation and having these future DOD spacecraft link to Telesat\u2019s LEO constellation via laser-based communications. The result of these investigations could lead to DOD using Telesat\u2019s LEO system for its global broadband connectivity needs.<\/p>\n<p>The award to Telesat was made by DARPA\u2019s Tactical Technology Office (TTO) under its Blackjack program. Blackjack is an architecture demonstration of a proliferated small satellite constellation in LEO to provide global persistence, low latency communications, and rapid technology refresh.<\/p>\n<p>Telesat will work with its sub-contractor <strong>Leidos<\/strong>&nbsp;to complete required deliverables under Telesat\u2019s DARPA contract.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract to Telesat, involving its commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. Telesat will undertake investigations that could lead to the Department of Defense (DOD) making greater use of commercial LEO satellite constellations, such as Telesat\u2019s LEO system, for DOD\u2019s future space-based communications. The investigations will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63546,"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-63545","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\/63545"}],"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=63545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}