{"id":63643,"date":"2018-11-08T22:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/radiant-solutions-to-build-smallsat-optical-telescope-system-for-darpa\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T22:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:40:15","slug":"radiant-solutions-to-build-smallsat-optical-telescope-system-for-darpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/radiant-solutions-to-build-smallsat-optical-telescope-system-for-darpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiant Solutions to Build Smallsat Optical Telescope System for DARPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Radiant Solutions<\/strong>, a <strong>Maxar Technologies<\/strong> company, was awarded a $2 million contract by the <strong>U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/strong> (DARPA) to lead a team in designing, building, and demonstrating a next-generation optical telescope system for small satellite constellations. Radiant Solutions is partnered on this program with <strong>SSL<\/strong>, Maxar\u2019s spacecraft manufacturing business.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite telescope system\u2019s lightweight design and large field-of-view is expected to enable more capable small satellites that can be manufactured more rapidly and economically. The system can scale to many dozens of spacecraft for persistent coverage. To reduce mass, the system\u2019s design incorporates a&nbsp; silicon carbide material designed for demanding space applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRadiant Solutions is proud to play a major role in the development of disruptive, next-generation technologies that will transform satellite imaging missions and enhance global mapping and intelligence at scale,\u201d said Radiant Solutions President Tony Frazier. \u201cWith our team\u2019s extensive experience in highly specialized geospatial systems, we\u2019re uniquely positioned to accelerate the evolution of the Department of Defense\u2019s (DOD\u2019s) most critical imaging infrastructure,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiant Solutions, a Maxar Technologies company, was awarded a $2 million contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead a team in designing, building, and demonstrating a next-generation optical telescope system for small satellite constellations. Radiant Solutions is partnered on this program with SSL, Maxar\u2019s spacecraft manufacturing business. The satellite telescope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63644,"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-63643","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\/63643"}],"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=63643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}