{"id":67217,"date":"2017-09-19T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kymeta-to-develop-ka-band-terminals-for-nasa\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T09:11:08","slug":"kymeta-to-develop-ka-band-terminals-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kymeta-to-develop-ka-band-terminals-for-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kymeta to Develop Ka-Band Terminals for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>NASA<\/strong> has awarded <strong>Kymeta\u2019s<\/strong> government solutions division two grants via the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop small, space-based, low Size, Weight And Power (SWaP) flat panel Ka-band terminals for CubeSats and other Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese grants will allow Kymeta government solutions to supply NASA with our proprietary metamaterials-based low SWaP flat panel solutions for satellite-to-satellite and satellite-to-ground\/ground-to-satellite communications, starting with CubeSats, which are about the size of a loaf of bread,\u201d said David Kervin, general manager and vice president of Kymeta government solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations receiving SBIR grants are required to develop solutions with practical significance that have both commercial and non-commercial applications. They also must provide the potential to fulfill NASA needs.<\/p>\n<p>Kymeta\u2019s announcement comes days after the grand finale of the Cassini Mission, noted for its groundbreaking discoveries using 20th&nbsp;century technology. \u201cThe Cassini Mission launched in Oct. 1997 with the best technology of the time,\u201d said Kervin.&nbsp;\u201cThese NASA grants will further our ability to develop solutions to hard problems for government, military and commercial applications, wherever that technology may travel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has awarded Kymeta\u2019s government solutions division two grants via the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop small, space-based, low Size, Weight And Power (SWaP) flat panel Ka-band terminals for CubeSats and other Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. \u201cThese grants will allow Kymeta government solutions to supply NASA with our proprietary metamaterials-based low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64759,"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-67217","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\/67217"}],"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=67217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}