{"id":67928,"date":"2017-06-24T01:29:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sstl-will-build-third-batch-of-galileo-navigation-payloads-2\/"},"modified":"2017-06-24T01:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:29:21","slug":"sstl-will-build-third-batch-of-galileo-navigation-payloads-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sstl-will-build-third-batch-of-galileo-navigation-payloads-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SSTL Will Build Third Batch of Galileo Navigation Payloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Under an Authority to Proceed signed with prime contractor <strong>OHB-System AG<\/strong>, <strong>Surrey Satellite Technology<\/strong> (SSTL) is commencing work on eight navigation payloads for Galileo, Europe\u2019s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).&nbsp;The contract will be worth approximately 140 million euros ($156.5 million), and is a continuation of a long cooperation between SSTL and OHB-System AG, with the pair having previously built 22 Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites for the Galileo constellation.<\/p>\n<p>SSTL\u2019s Galileo FOC payload includes European-sourced atomic clocks, navigation signal generators, high power Travelling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs) and antennas. SSTL\u2019s payload proposal for this third batch is for a recurrent build of the existing payload, with an evolution of the atomic clocks to incorporate advances made under the European GNSS Evolution Program.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen of SSTL\u2019s Galileo FOC navigation payloads are currently operational in orbit, with a further eight payloads already delivered to OHB for integration and testing.<\/p>\n<p>SSTL has been involved in the Galileo program since 2003 with the design and build of Giove A, Galileo\u2019s pathfinder mission.&nbsp;Giove A launched in 2005 and is still operational today, providing data about the radiation environment in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). An experimental GPS receiver on board Giove A also maps out the antenna patterns of GPS satellites for use in planning navigation systems for future high altitude missions in Geostationary Orbit (GEO), and beyond into deep space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under an Authority to Proceed signed with prime contractor OHB-System AG, Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is commencing work on eight navigation payloads for Galileo, Europe\u2019s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).&nbsp;The contract will be worth approximately 140 million euros ($156.5 million), and is a continuation of a long cooperation between SSTL and OHB-System AG, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67930,"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-67928","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\/67928"}],"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=67928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}