{"id":80207,"date":"2013-08-30T01:34:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astro-aerospace-to-provide-jib-antennas-for-radarsat\/"},"modified":"2013-08-30T01:34:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:34:25","slug":"astro-aerospace-to-provide-jib-antennas-for-radarsat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astro-aerospace-to-provide-jib-antennas-for-radarsat\/","title":{"rendered":"Astro Aerospace to provide JIB Antennas for Radarsat"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-29-13] JIB antennas from <b>Northrop Grumman<\/b>\u2018s <b>Astro Aerospace<\/b> business unit will help provide a new maritime identification capability for Canada\u2019s three Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) Earth observation satellites, which are planned for launch in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Astro Aerospace will provide 13 self-deploying, monopole JIB antennas as part of an Automated Identification System (AIS) being added to the identical radar-imaging satellites under a contract from RCM prime contractor <b>MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates.<\/b> The RCM satellites will provide C-band radar data to Radarsat 2 users and add new applications made possible through the three-satellite constellation. Improvements include faster recurring area coverage of Canada and reduced risk of a service interruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur JIB antennas will be part of the key hardware in this world-class constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites that will add a ship identification capability for enhanced monitoring of Canada\u2019s coastal zones,\u201d said John Alvarez, Astro Aerospace general manager.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-29-13] JIB antennas from Northrop Grumman\u2018s Astro Aerospace business unit will help provide a new maritime identification capability for Canada\u2019s three Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) Earth observation satellites, which are planned for launch in 2018. Astro Aerospace will provide 13 self-deploying, monopole JIB antennas as part of an Automated Identification System (AIS) being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80209,"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-80207","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\/80207"}],"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=80207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}