{"id":79036,"date":"2013-12-21T01:41:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/exelis-delivers-ahi-sensor-to-mitsubishi-electric-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T01:41:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:41:51","slug":"exelis-delivers-ahi-sensor-to-mitsubishi-electric-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/exelis-delivers-ahi-sensor-to-mitsubishi-electric-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Exelis delivers AHI Sensor to Mitsubishi Electric in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-20-13] <b>Exelis <\/b>is supporting Japan\u2019s weather forecasting capabilities with the delivery of its first advanced weather satellite payload to <b>Mitsubishi Electric Corporation<\/b>. The AHI is an Advanced Baseline Imager-class sensor similar to the one that will be integrated onto the <b>NASA<\/b> and <b>NOAA<\/b> Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R (GOES R) Series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAHI provides a number of improvements compared with current capabilities including better forecasting, improved numerical weather prediction accuracy and enhanced environmental monitoring,\u201d said Eric Webster, vice president of weather systems, Exelis Geospatial Systems.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsubishi Electric will integrate the AHI into the Himawari 8 satellite for the Japan Meteorological Agency. The Himawari 8 and Himawari 9 geostationary satellites will replace the Multifunctional Transport Satellite (MTSAT) series. Himawari 8 is scheduled to launch next year. Both Himawari satellites are dedicated to a meteorological mission, unlike the MTSAT series, which performs both meteorological and aeronautical functions.<\/p>\n<p>Exelis is in the process of building and delivering seven advanced imagers: two for Japan; one for South Korea; and four for NASA and NOAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-20-13] Exelis is supporting Japan\u2019s weather forecasting capabilities with the delivery of its first advanced weather satellite payload to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. The AHI is an Advanced Baseline Imager-class sensor similar to the one that will be integrated onto the NASA and NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R (GOES R) Series. \u201cAHI provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79037,"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-79036","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\/79036"}],"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=79036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}