{"id":67721,"date":"2017-07-17T18:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T10:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/canada-to-use-etl-systems-rf-equipment-for-wgs-constellation\/"},"modified":"2017-07-17T18:24:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T10:24:06","slug":"canada-to-use-etl-systems-rf-equipment-for-wgs-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/canada-to-use-etl-systems-rf-equipment-for-wgs-constellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to Use ETL Systems\u2019 RF Equipment for WGS Constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>ETL Systems<\/strong> has announced that<strong> General Dynamics <\/strong>and the <strong>Canadian Armed Forces <\/strong>will use its Radio Frequency (RF) equipment for in-service support of the Mercury Global Anchor Segment (MGAS). The MGAS anchor stations \u2014 seven stations at three sites across Canada \u2014 will communicate with the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite constellation and link them to existing Canadian Armed Forces communications infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Mercury Global will provide the CAF with assured access to wideband military satellite communications. The CAF will ultimately have access to bandwidth from the nine WGS satellites, using the three anchor sites located in Eastern, Central and Western Canada.<\/p>\n<p>A range of ETL\u2019s RF equipment has been used as part of the WGS project, including its receive matrix system on downlinks and combining matrix on the uplink. Additionally, General Dynamics is using ETL\u2019s Alto line amplifiers for both the satellites\u2019 Transmitter (TX) and Receiver (RX) links at the MGAS anchor stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETL Systems has announced that General Dynamics and the Canadian Armed Forces will use its Radio Frequency (RF) equipment for in-service support of the Mercury Global Anchor Segment (MGAS). The MGAS anchor stations \u2014 seven stations at three sites across Canada \u2014 will communicate with the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite constellation and link them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67384,"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-67721","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\/67721"}],"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=67721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}