{"id":81930,"date":"2012-12-06T01:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/raytheon-to-develop-low-cost-earth-observing-satellites-for-the-u-s-military\/"},"modified":"2012-12-06T01:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:01:21","slug":"raytheon-to-develop-low-cost-earth-observing-satellites-for-the-u-s-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/raytheon-to-develop-low-cost-earth-observing-satellites-for-the-u-s-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon to Develop Low-Cost Earth Observing Satellites for the U.S. Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Raytheon DARPA, Satellite Imagery, NanoSatellite<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 12\/02\/2012<\/p>\n<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\/See_Me_a.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Artist\u2019s concept of the coverage area of a single SeeMe satellite<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: DARPA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Raytheon<\/strong>\u2018s Missile Systems segment is partnering with the U.S. military to provide persistent surveillance imagery on-demand to low-echelon warfighters in the field under the Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements (SeeMe) program. For this, the company signed a contract for $949,679 contract from the <strong>U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/strong> (DARPA). <\/p>\n<p>SeeMe will develop technologies that could help make important battlefield imagery available in real time. Instead of using expensive reconnaissance satellites which products are analyzed though a centralized organization, SeeMe would use small, low-cost temporary satellites operating at low altitudes. Raytheon is tasked with designing, building, launching and operating these satellites with a total cost no higher than $500,000 each. The satellites are also expected to use non-traditional RF and optical apertures and imagery processing techniques. <\/p>\n<p>The SeeMe program would allow small U.S. squads and fire-teams access to reliable information in remote and &#8220;beyond-line-of-sight&#8221; conditions, according to DARPA. The Agency expects to have a constellation of 24 SeeMe satellites operating by 2015. <\/p>\n<p>It is likely that other contractors will also become involved with the SeeMe program.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Raytheon DARPA, Satellite Imagery, NanoSatellite Publication Date: 12\/02\/2012 Artist\u2019s concept of the coverage area of a single SeeMe satellite Image credit: DARPA Raytheon\u2018s Missile Systems segment is partnering with the U.S. military to provide persistent surveillance imagery on-demand to low-echelon warfighters in the field under the Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements (SeeMe) program. [&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-81930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81930"}],"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=81930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}