{"id":68790,"date":"2017-02-25T00:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/cpi-to-manufacture-ka-band-klystrons-for-swot\/"},"modified":"2017-02-25T00:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:21:24","slug":"cpi-to-manufacture-ka-band-klystrons-for-swot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/cpi-to-manufacture-ka-band-klystrons-for-swot\/","title":{"rendered":"CPI to Manufacture Ka-band Klystrons for SWOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Canadian Space Agency<\/strong> (CSA) has awarded <strong>Communications &amp; Power Industries<\/strong> (CPI) a&nbsp;CA$3.8 million ($2.8 million) contract to manufacture the flight hardware of the Ka-band Extended Interaction Klystron (EIK) for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission.&nbsp;SWOT, scheduled to launch in&nbsp;April 2021, is a joint mission of <strong>NASA<\/strong> and the <strong>French Space Agency<\/strong> (CNES), with a contribution from the CSA.&nbsp;The SWOT mission will survey 90 percent of Earth\u2019s surface and collect precise altimetric measurements of rivers, lakes, reservoirs and flooded zones, as well as the Sea-Surface Height (SSH) of all oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Under the contract, CPI will develop two flight models and one spare flight model 35GHz EIKs; the company had previously provided development models of the EIK for this program in 2014.&nbsp;CPI\u2019s EIKs are a critical component of the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) instrument, creating the high-power microwaves required for the instrument to measure the fine details of the oceans\u2019 surface topography and how bodies of water change over time.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organizations involved, SWOT is expected to measure ocean features with resolution that is 10 times better than that of current technologies. <strong>Environment Canada<\/strong> plans to use the information for hydrological and meteorological monitoring and forecasting and <strong>Fisheries and Oceans Canada<\/strong> for ocean science and forecasting.<\/p>\n<p>Work on this project will take place at CPI\u2019s facilities in&nbsp;Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. CPI will deliver flight models beginning in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded Communications &amp; Power Industries (CPI) a&nbsp;CA$3.8 million ($2.8 million) contract to manufacture the flight hardware of the Ka-band Extended Interaction Klystron (EIK) for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission.&nbsp;SWOT, scheduled to launch in&nbsp;April 2021, is a joint mission of NASA and the French Space Agency (CNES), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68791,"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-68790","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\/68790"}],"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=68790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}