{"id":77649,"date":"2014-05-02T19:18:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T11:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/canada-increases-funding-for-japans-next-generation-space-observatory\/"},"modified":"2014-05-02T19:18:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T11:18:35","slug":"canada-increases-funding-for-japans-next-generation-space-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/canada-increases-funding-for-japans-next-generation-space-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Increases Funding for Japan\u2019s Next Generation Space Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 05-02-2014] <b>Neptec Design Group<\/b> received a $1.35 million add-on contract from the <b>Canadian Space Agency<\/b> (CSA) to continue work&nbsp;on Canada\u2019s contribution to Astro H,&nbsp;the <strong>Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency\u2019s<\/strong> (JAXA) next\u00adgeneration space observatory.&nbsp;CSA is developing Astro H\u2019s&nbsp;meteorology system (CAMS), which&nbsp;will improve the calibration of Astro H\u2019s main telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Neptec started its work on CAMS in 2010. The seven-year contract is estimated at $8 million. Canadian and Japanese astronomers plan to use Astro-H to study black holes, neutron stars and galactic formation. The mission is Canada\u2019s first using X-ray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 05-02-2014] Neptec Design Group received a $1.35 million add-on contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to continue work&nbsp;on Canada\u2019s contribution to Astro H,&nbsp;the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency\u2019s (JAXA) next\u00adgeneration space observatory.&nbsp;CSA is developing Astro H\u2019s&nbsp;meteorology system (CAMS), which&nbsp;will improve the calibration of Astro H\u2019s main telescope. Neptec started its work on CAMS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77651,"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-77649","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\/77649"}],"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=77649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}