{"id":70439,"date":"2016-07-22T18:20:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T10:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/isat-progresses-on-tracking-feed-equipment-for-inclined-and-ka-band-satellites\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T18:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T10:20:51","slug":"isat-progresses-on-tracking-feed-equipment-for-inclined-and-ka-band-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/isat-progresses-on-tracking-feed-equipment-for-inclined-and-ka-band-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"iSat Progresses on Tracking Feed Equipment for Inclined and Ka-band Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-22-2016] <strong>Integrated Satellite Applications Technologies <\/strong>(iSat) is making progress on developing new satellite tracking feed equipment for inclined and Ka-band satellites based on a contract from the <strong>European Space Agency <\/strong>(ESA) the company received in January.<\/p>\n<p>ESA awarded the contract to develop a feed adjustment mechanism with both manual and motorized operation to provide improved alignment of Ka-band VSAT antennas and tracking of inclined-orbit satellites up to about \u00b13 degrees in C-, X- and Ku-band. According to iSat, the system significantly reduces the capital cost of entry to use inclined capacity, which typically costs around 50 percent that of capacity in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO).<\/p>\n<p>The Ka-band adjustable feed development provides enhanced Radio Frequency (RF) performance for Ka-band antenna systems and makes Ka-band installations easier and more accurate. The unit is available with or without a rear mount Block Upconverter (BUC) bracket, which reduces waveguide loss.<\/p>\n<p>iSat conducted tests of the inclined tracking motorized feed using a 1.8-meter offset antenna at Ku-band (11.45 GHz) monitoring the beacon on <strong>SES<\/strong>\u2019 NSS 7, which is operating in a 1 degree inclined orbit, from iSat\u2019s Cody Technology Park, Farnborough facility. The beacon power level signal received stayed within a range of 0.5dB.<\/p>\n<p>According to iSat, without tracking, the beacon power level could expect to change by more than 20dB for a 1-degree miss-point. The company is continuing to work on a non-intervention remote end system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-22-2016] Integrated Satellite Applications Technologies (iSat) is making progress on developing new satellite tracking feed equipment for inclined and Ka-band satellites based on a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) the company received in January. ESA awarded the contract to develop a feed adjustment mechanism with both manual and motorized operation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70442,"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-70439","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\/70439"}],"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=70439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}