{"id":80750,"date":"2013-06-27T23:48:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-french-defense-procurement-agency-signs-study-contract\/"},"modified":"2013-06-27T23:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:48:01","slug":"thales-alenia-space-french-defense-procurement-agency-signs-study-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-french-defense-procurement-agency-signs-study-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space, French Defense Procurement Agency Signs Study Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 06-26-13]&nbsp;<b>Thales Alenia Space <\/b>has signed a study contract with<b> the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) <\/b>to enhance communications between ground and military mission aircrafts through a telecommunication satellite without interruption during extreme flying conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The aim of the Kit Aero Large Band study (Wide Band Airborne Kit; KALB) is to develop a high throughput airborne SATCOM terminal compatible with a wide range of aircraft including A400, MRTT, and ATL2. Typically, a tanker equipped with KALB will be able to disseminate in quasi real time Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance information collected by fighters.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Starting in 2014, the Athena-Fidus dual use Ka-band telecommunication satellite built by Thales Alenia Space will provide high data rate capabilities for deployed French forces. The broadcasting of tactical information between forces at all level has become a mandatory capability in recent conflicts, requesting ever increasing communications capacities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 06-26-13]&nbsp;Thales Alenia Space has signed a study contract with the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) to enhance communications between ground and military mission aircrafts through a telecommunication satellite without interruption during extreme flying conditions. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The aim of the Kit Aero Large Band study (Wide Band Airborne Kit; KALB) is to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-80750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80750"}],"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=80750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}