{"id":83925,"date":"2011-11-21T19:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T11:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeing-delivers-wgs-4-to-cape-canaveral-launch-facility\/"},"modified":"2011-11-21T19:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T11:03:24","slug":"boeing-delivers-wgs-4-to-cape-canaveral-launch-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeing-delivers-wgs-4-to-cape-canaveral-launch-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Delivers WGS-4 to Cape Canaveral Launch Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-21-11] <b>Boeing<\/b> shipped its fourth Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to undergo final preparations for its scheduled January launch, the company announced Nov. 18.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;WGS-4 is the first of the WGS Block 2 satellites and will join three other spacecraft already on orbit and carrying the bulk of satellite communications traffic for the armed forces and other government agencies.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The WGS Block 2 series aims to add performance upgrades to the Pentagon network, such as a switchable radio frequency bypass for the transmission of airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery at higher data rates.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cNew airborne surveillance platforms are driving a need for higher data rates, and the upgrades on WGS-4 are designed specifically to meet these emerging requirements,\u201d Boeing Space &amp; Intelligence Systems Vice President and General Manager Craig Cooning said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-21-11] Boeing shipped its fourth Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to undergo final preparations for its scheduled January launch, the company announced Nov. 18. &nbsp; &nbsp;WGS-4 is the first of the WGS Block 2 satellites and will join three other spacecraft already on orbit and carrying the bulk [&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-83925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83925"}],"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=83925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}