{"id":76052,"date":"2014-09-30T21:23:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbit-communications-to-upgrade-alaskan-ground-station\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T21:23:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T13:23:14","slug":"orbit-communications-to-upgrade-alaskan-ground-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbit-communications-to-upgrade-alaskan-ground-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbit Communications to Upgrade Alaskan Ground Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-30-2014] <b>Orbit Communications Systems <\/b>has been awarded a $725,000 contract to upgrade a ground station in Alaska for a U.S.-based system integrator. To reduce downtime, the company is performing the upgrade with its Pedestal Interface Unit (PIU) to accelerate the shift from a government analog system to digital without needing to replace the legacy pedestal.<\/p>\n<p>Orbit\u2019s project includes a dual-band antenna assembly, and the solution being provided can replace the S-band feed currently in use with dual S- and X-band auto-tracking equipment. According to Orbit, this boosts the functionality to that of two antennas.<\/p>\n<p>Orbit\u2019s solution is designed to operate in extreme environmental conditions. The Alaskan ground station is used to command and track a constellation of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) Earth Observation (EO) satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-30-2014] Orbit Communications Systems has been awarded a $725,000 contract to upgrade a ground station in Alaska for a U.S.-based system integrator. To reduce downtime, the company is performing the upgrade with its Pedestal Interface Unit (PIU) to accelerate the shift from a government analog system to digital without needing to replace the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76053,"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-76052","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\/76052"}],"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=76052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}