{"id":84220,"date":"2011-09-13T23:42:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/pentagon-interested-in-viasat-1-capability-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2011-09-13T23:42:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T15:42:45","slug":"pentagon-interested-in-viasat-1-capability-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/pentagon-interested-in-viasat-1-capability-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Interested in ViaSat-1 Capability Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite operator&nbsp;<b>ViaSat<\/b>&nbsp;said it is in talks with the&nbsp;<b>U.S. Department of Defense<\/b>&nbsp;regarding a satellite upgrade to improve ISR capabilities on operations and confirmed that the Pentagon is \u201cvery interested to use ViaSat-1\u201d for the project, according to a&nbsp;<i>Sheppard<\/i>&nbsp;report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;In the report, ViaSat said the employment of the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite, which is scheduled for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in September, would represent a significant amount of new business.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201c[The Pentagon deal] would change a lot of things. The Ka-band satellite has the capacity to serve the accelerating growth in bandwidth demand for multimedia Internet access over the next decade. ViaSat-1 would increase throughput of data from around 5GB to 140GB per second. It would provide more capability and costs would be no different.\u201d<br \/>\nViaSat also told Sheppard that the deal would result in a need to change techniques in order to get high throughput on the satellite and would require the use of a certain number of gateway communications relays. \u201cWe don\u2019t think this will happen overnight but there some utility in that,\u201d ViaSat said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite operator&nbsp;ViaSat&nbsp;said it is in talks with the&nbsp;U.S. Department of Defense&nbsp;regarding a satellite upgrade to improve ISR capabilities on operations and confirmed that the Pentagon is \u201cvery interested to use ViaSat-1\u201d for the project, according to a&nbsp;Sheppard&nbsp;report. &nbsp; &nbsp;In the report, ViaSat said the employment of the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite, which is scheduled for launch [&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-84220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84220"}],"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=84220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}