{"id":70474,"date":"2016-07-20T21:24:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sstl-creating-new-leo-platform-for-honeywell-and-uk-space-agency\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T21:24:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:24:59","slug":"sstl-creating-new-leo-platform-for-honeywell-and-uk-space-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sstl-creating-new-leo-platform-for-honeywell-and-uk-space-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"SSTL Creating New LEO platform for Honeywell and UK Space Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-20-2016] <strong>Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd <\/strong>(SSTL) has signed a contract with <strong>Honeywell Aerospace <\/strong>to provide a variant of its SSTL 12 satellite platform for a technology demonstration mission. The platform, called Vesta, will test a new two-way Very High Frequency (VHF) Data Exchange System (VDES) payload for the <strong>exactEarth <\/strong>maritime satellite constellation. SSTL is providing the platform as part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Honeywell and the <strong>U.K. Space Agency<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Vesta is a flagship project of the U.K.\u2019s National Space Technology Program, funded through the U.K. Space Agency and managed via the <strong>Center for Earth Observation Instrumentation and Space Technology <\/strong>(CEOI-ST). The platform is a new configuration of the SSTL 12 bus, optimized for missions of between 3kg and 25kg. SSTL is manufacturing Vesta in its new NanoLab at the company\u2019s Guildford facility under a rapid-build schedule to meet a 2017 launch date.<\/p>\n<p>The Vesta platform will have three-axis pointing capability, a Single Event Upset (SEU) tolerant on-board computer, VxWorks operating system, and an S-band transmitter and receiver. The design is compatible with a range of launch deployment systems for injection into orbit by <strong>Orbital ATK<\/strong>\u2019s Antares, Russia\u2019s Soyuz, Russia and Ukraine\u2019s Dnepr, <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>\u2019s Falcon 9, <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong>\u2019s (ULA\u2019s) Atlas and Delta, and <strong>Arianespace<\/strong>\u2019s Vega rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-20-2016] Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has signed a contract with Honeywell Aerospace to provide a variant of its SSTL 12 satellite platform for a technology demonstration mission. The platform, called Vesta, will test a new two-way Very High Frequency (VHF) Data Exchange System (VDES) payload for the exactEarth maritime satellite constellation. SSTL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70477,"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-70474","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\/70474"}],"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=70474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}