{"id":83240,"date":"2012-04-16T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeing-wgs-4-completes-on-orbit-testing-transferred-to-air-force-control\/"},"modified":"2012-04-16T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:09:00","slug":"boeing-wgs-4-completes-on-orbit-testing-transferred-to-air-force-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeing-wgs-4-completes-on-orbit-testing-transferred-to-air-force-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing WGS 4 Completes On-Orbit Testing, Transferred to Air Force Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-16-12] <b>Boeing<\/b> has transferred control of the Wideband Global Satcom 4 (WGS 4) satellite to <b>U.S.<\/b> <b>Air Force<\/b> operators following successful on-orbit testing and functionality demonstrations, the satellite manufacturer confirmed April 13.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Boeing said the WGS 4\u2019s communications payload passed test signals through each of the satellite\u2019s 19 antenna beams. The tests also verified the craft\u2019s beam-steering functions. The Air Force military ground control team will finish some additional testing on the satellite and reposition it over the Middle East to enter service this summer.<br \/>\nWGS 4, valued at $464 million, joins three other WGS satellites that form the Pentagon\u2019s worldwide communications network across all branches of the military.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThis fourth WGS satellite adds substantial capacity and resiliency to the WGS constellation,\u201d Boeing Vice President and General Manager Craig Cooning said in a statement. \u201cThe team worked around the clock to ensure that all testing was completed successfully, and that the satellite was healthy and ready for customer handover. We remain committed to the Air Force, the WGS mission and to continuing to support the delivery of this critical enhancement of warfighter communications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-16-12] Boeing has transferred control of the Wideband Global Satcom 4 (WGS 4) satellite to U.S. Air Force operators following successful on-orbit testing and functionality demonstrations, the satellite manufacturer confirmed April 13. &nbsp; &nbsp;Boeing said the WGS 4\u2019s communications payload passed test signals through each of the satellite\u2019s 19 antenna beams. The tests also verified [&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-83240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83240"}],"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=83240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}