{"id":84352,"date":"2011-08-22T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/report-pentagon-interested-in-viasat-1-capability-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:55:10","slug":"report-pentagon-interested-in-viasat-1-capability-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/report-pentagon-interested-in-viasat-1-capability-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pentagon Interested in ViaSat-1 Capability Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-22-11] Satellite operator <b>ViaSat<\/b> said it is in talks with the <b>U.S. Department of Defense<\/b> 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 <i>Sheppard<\/i> report issued Aug. 19.<br \/>\n&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>[08-22-11] Satellite operator ViaSat said it is in talks with the U.S. Department of Defense 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 Sheppard report issued Aug. 19. &nbsp; &nbsp;In the report, ViaSat said the employment [&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-84352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84352"}],"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=84352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}