{"id":66065,"date":"2018-02-16T23:32:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/clyde-space-secures-its-first-launch-contract\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T23:32:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:32:04","slug":"clyde-space-secures-its-first-launch-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/clyde-space-secures-its-first-launch-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Clyde Space Secures its First Launch Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clyde Space <\/strong>has secured its first launch contract, a follow-on order from an initial 6U satellite purchase from Israeli company <strong>NSLComm. <\/strong>Under the contract, Clyde Space is delivering an end-to-end mission service package, from spacecraft design, manufacture and launch to on-orbit operations.<\/p>\n<p>The 6U spacecraft, NSLSat1, will demonstrate a new high-performance antenna that provides Ka-band communications from space. According to Clyde Space, the antenna could enable internet access to global satellite operators at a lower cost. The solution turns satellites such as CubeSats and smallsats into transponders that relay signals from Low Earth Orbit (LEO), providing worldwide coverage through a constellation of 60 to 100 spacecraft. The technology could enable a broader coverage area with a signal between 10 to 100 times stronger than a traditional transponder, Clyde Space stated.<\/p>\n<p>The antenna, which deploys once in space, is able to compensate for any imperfections, electromechanically adjusting itself when encountering insufficiencies and changing the ground patterns accordingly, the company stated.<\/p>\n<p>Clyde Space confirmed the launch for the end of 2018, and stated it hopes the successful mission will lead to larger constellation orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clyde Space has secured its first launch contract, a follow-on order from an initial 6U satellite purchase from Israeli company NSLComm. Under the contract, Clyde Space is delivering an end-to-end mission service package, from spacecraft design, manufacture and launch to on-orbit operations. The 6U spacecraft, NSLSat1, will demonstrate a new high-performance antenna that provides Ka-band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66068,"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-66065","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\/66065"}],"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=66065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}