{"id":81387,"date":"2013-03-13T23:08:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeing-wgs-5-arrives-in-florida-to-prepare-for-ula-delta-4-launch\/"},"modified":"2013-03-13T23:08:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:08:31","slug":"boeing-wgs-5-arrives-in-florida-to-prepare-for-ula-delta-4-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeing-wgs-5-arrives-in-florida-to-prepare-for-ula-delta-4-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing WGS-5 Arrives in Florida to Prepare for ULA Delta 4 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 03-13-13] <strong>Boeing<\/strong> has shipped its fifth Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, which aims to provide faster transmission of airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance imagery to the <strong>United States Air Force<\/strong>. WGS-5 arrived at the Astrotech processing facility March 9 and will undergo preflight checkout, fueling and integration before its launch later this year on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;WGS-5 is part of the Air Force\u2019s upgraded Block 2 series, featuring performance upgrades such as a switchable radio frequency bypass that sends imagery approximately three times faster than the data rates currently available to the U.S. Department of Defense. The satellite will join four other Boeing-built WGS satellites to provide warfighters with instant, secure, worldwide connectivity.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe worked closely with the Air Force to follow a commercial operating model on the Block II follow-on contract,\u201d Boeing Space &amp; Intelligence Systems Vice President and General Manager Craig Cooning said in a statement. \u201cThis new model has saved the Air Force more than $150 million without compromising mission assurance.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;WGS satellites include enhanced capabilities designed for flexible communications in both X- and Ka-band frequencies, allowing terminals that operate in different frequency bands to interconnect and reposition coverage beams based on evolving mission needs. WGS-6 is the next satellite in the series to be produced under the Block 2 contract. The satellite completed testing and is scheduled for a mid-2013 launch date. WGS satellites -7 through -10 are in production under a Block 2 follow-on contract signed in August 2010.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 03-13-13] Boeing has shipped its fifth Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, which aims to provide faster transmission of airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance imagery to the United States Air Force. WGS-5 arrived at the Astrotech processing facility March 9 and will undergo preflight checkout, fueling and integration before its launch later this year [&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-81387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81387"}],"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=81387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}