{"id":67679,"date":"2017-07-25T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/norwegian-microsatellite-deploys-antenna-for-vhf-data-exchange\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T10:08:13","slug":"norwegian-microsatellite-deploys-antenna-for-vhf-data-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/norwegian-microsatellite-deploys-antenna-for-vhf-data-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Microsatellite Deploys Antenna for VHF Data Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Norwegian Space Center<\/strong> has announced successful deployment of critical antennas and probes on the NORsat 1 and NORsat 2 microsatellites built by Canada\u2019s <strong>Space Flight Laboratory <\/strong>(SFL), which launched on July 14 from Kazakhstan. Most notable was deployment of a large Yagi antenna from NORsat 2 that will provide first-of-its-kind Very High Frequency (VHF) Data Exchange (VDE) from space, according to the Norwegian Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>Based at the <strong>University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies<\/strong> (UTIAS), SFL built the two microsatellites for maritime traffic monitoring, communications and science applications on behalf of the Norwegian Space Center with support from the <strong>Norwegian Coastal Authority, Space Norway<\/strong>, and the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA).<\/p>\n<p>The NORsat 2 VDE payload will enable higher bandwidth two-way communication with ships at sea. According to the Norwegian Space Center, adding VDE enables increased messaging capacity, better reliability of message delivery, and increased range of ship-to-shore and ship-to-ship communication beyond direct line of sight. Kongsberg Seatex provided the VDE payload, while Space Norway will commercialize the maritime communications service.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, NORsat 1 and NORsat 2 deployed antennas for Automatic Identification System (AIS) receivers to acquire messages from maritime vessels. NORsat 1 also extended four Langmuir probes that are part of a <strong>University of Oslo<\/strong> scientific instrument designed to measure space weather impacting communications and navigation equipment.<\/p>\n<p>SFL used its next-generation Earth Monitoring and Observation (NEMO) microsatellite platform to develop the NORsat 1 and 2 microsatellites. Each weighs about 15 kilograms and has main body dimensions of 20 by 30 by 40cm. The microsatellites were integrated at SFL\u2019s Toronto development facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Norwegian Space Center has announced successful deployment of critical antennas and probes on the NORsat 1 and NORsat 2 microsatellites built by Canada\u2019s Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), which launched on July 14 from Kazakhstan. Most notable was deployment of a large Yagi antenna from NORsat 2 that will provide first-of-its-kind Very High Frequency (VHF) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67680,"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-67679","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\/67679"}],"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=67679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}