{"id":70394,"date":"2016-07-28T20:39:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T12:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/harris-to-provide-esa-with-large-deployable-reflector-for-earth-explorer-mission\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T20:39:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T12:39:57","slug":"harris-to-provide-esa-with-large-deployable-reflector-for-earth-explorer-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/harris-to-provide-esa-with-large-deployable-reflector-for-earth-explorer-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris to Provide ESA with Large Deployable Reflector for Earth Explorer Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-28-2016] <strong>Airbus Defence and Space<\/strong> has selected <strong>Harris Corporation<\/strong> to provide a 12-meter deployable reflector and precision boom assembly for its Biomass forest-carbon-monitoring satellite. Biomass refers to the amount of living matter in a given habitat, which is important to understand the Earth\u2019s climate.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to launch in 2021, the Biomass satellite will enable <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) scientists to explore the Earth\u2019s surface using a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in P-band frequency for the first time. It is expected to produce the highly accurate global maps of forest biomass, forest height and forest disturbances (e.g., burning of tropical forests).<\/p>\n<p>The Harris deployable reflector is a major component of the SAR antenna and enables the Biomass satellite to obtain a high level of map accuracy not attainable by ground measurement techniques alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-28-2016] Airbus Defence and Space has selected Harris Corporation to provide a 12-meter deployable reflector and precision boom assembly for its Biomass forest-carbon-monitoring satellite. Biomass refers to the amount of living matter in a given habitat, which is important to understand the Earth\u2019s climate. Scheduled to launch in 2021, the Biomass satellite will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70395,"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-70394","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\/70394"}],"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=70394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}