{"id":71204,"date":"2016-05-03T00:21:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/urthecasts-sar-technology-passes-prototype-testing\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T00:21:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:21:39","slug":"urthecasts-sar-technology-passes-prototype-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/urthecasts-sar-technology-passes-prototype-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"UrtheCast\u2019s SAR Technology Passes Prototype Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 05-02-2016] <b>UrtheCast<\/b> has successfully completed prototype hardware testing of the principal core enabling elements&nbsp;for its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology. This includes the digital sensor electronics, which comprise the \u201cheart\u201d of the SAR instrument, and the dual-frequency, multi-aperture SAR antenna.<\/p>\n<p>UrtheCast, with its partners, built two multi-channel Digital Radio Frequency Units (DRFUs) and completed testing of the core functions at ultra-high data rates representative of the flight system. This included tests to demonstrate the ability to synchronize two DRFUs at the terabit per second data rates required for multi-aperture operation of the SAR antenna. According to UrtheCast, the tests have demonstrated a 150 femtosecond sampling&nbsp;accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>The company also built and tested a panel of its dual-frequency, multi-aperture antenna using flight representative manufacturing processes that have successfully demonstrated the antenna\u2019s Radio Frequency (RF) performance in both the X- and L-band frequencies and in both transmit and receive modes.<\/p>\n<p>UrtheCast\u2019s planned OptiSAR constellation consists of 16 satellites in pairs of two, with each pair comprised of one multispectral optical satellite and one SAR satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 05-02-2016] UrtheCast has successfully completed prototype hardware testing of the principal core enabling elements&nbsp;for its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology. This includes the digital sensor electronics, which comprise the \u201cheart\u201d of the SAR instrument, and the dual-frequency, multi-aperture SAR antenna. UrtheCast, with its partners, built two multi-channel Digital Radio Frequency Units (DRFUs) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71205,"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-71204","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\/71204"}],"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=71204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}