{"id":81867,"date":"2012-12-13T17:22:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T09:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/raytheon-to-design-military-imaging-satellites-for-darpas-seeme-program\/"},"modified":"2012-12-13T17:22:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T09:22:01","slug":"raytheon-to-design-military-imaging-satellites-for-darpas-seeme-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/raytheon-to-design-military-imaging-satellites-for-darpas-seeme-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon to Design Military Imaging Satellites for DARPA\u2019s SeeMe Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"175\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Darpa.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<em>Artist\u2019s concept of the coverage area of a single SeeMe satellite<\/em><br \/>\nImage credit: DARPA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;[12-13-12] <strong>Raytheon <\/strong>has won a $1.5 million contract to design small satellites to enhance warfighter situational awareness in the battlespace for phase one of <strong>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)<\/strong>\u2019s Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements (SeeMe) program, the company announced Dec. 13.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe SeeMe program aims to directly provide the warfighter in the field with useful on-demand imagery information via a low-cost satellite constellation launched on a schedule based on to Department of Defense operational tempos.<br \/>\n\t&#8220;Leveraging our state-of-the-art missile assembly lines, we can mass produce these small, lightweight satellites quickly and affordably,&#8221; Raytheon Missile Systems Vice President of Advanced Missile Systems Tom Bussing said in a statement. &#8220;As the world\u2019s only producer of exoatmospheric kill vehicles, we are already developing and building hardware to space standards.&#8221;<br \/>\n\tTo assist with design work and eventually production, Raytheon has partnered with Sierra Nevada Corporation, University of Arizona and SRI International. According to the contract, next year the Raytheon team aims to build six satellites for ground testing for phase two of the SeeMe program.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist\u2019s concept of the coverage area of a single SeeMe satellite Image credit: DARPA &nbsp;[12-13-12] Raytheon has won a $1.5 million contract to design small satellites to enhance warfighter situational awareness in the battlespace for phase one of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)\u2019s Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements (SeeMe) program, the company announced [&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-81867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81867"}],"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=81867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}