{"id":85248,"date":"2011-03-09T01:15:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/u-s-air-force-demonstrates-fab-t-milstar-low-data-rate-exchange\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T01:15:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T17:15:10","slug":"u-s-air-force-demonstrates-fab-t-milstar-low-data-rate-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/u-s-air-force-demonstrates-fab-t-milstar-low-data-rate-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Air Force Demonstrates FAB-T, Milstar Low-Data-Rate Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;<strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong>&nbsp;successfully demonstrated over-the-air, low-data-rate communication between an orbiting Milstar satellite and the family of advanced beyond line-of-sight terminal, the Pentagon announced Feb. 25.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The demonstration, conducted late last month, included a series of uplink and downlink communication tests that involved passing voice and data communication between a third-generation (Block 8) FAB-T unit and the legacy Milstar satellite. The FAB-T unit used its low-data-rate software to transmit through its newly developed large aircraft antenna.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThis successful FAB-T test demonstrates the continuous progress made by the dedicated team that is building this critical nuclear command and control network communications system. This over-the-air test demonstrated for the first time that the more advanced Block 8 terminal can communicate with the Milstar satellite, and serve as a network node with two legacy Milstar terminals,\u201d U.S. Milsatcom Systems Director for the Space and Missile Systems Center Dave Madden said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Boeing<\/strong>&nbsp;and its industry team, which includes&nbsp;<strong>L-3 Communications<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Rockwell Collins<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>ViaSat<\/strong>, will now conduct a series of terminal integration, software testing and flight testing activities before building this survivable, secure command and control system.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The FAB-T program is scheduled to enter flight-testing in the first quarter of 2013 and exercise low-rate initial production options in the third quarter 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;U.S. Air Force&nbsp;successfully demonstrated over-the-air, low-data-rate communication between an orbiting Milstar satellite and the family of advanced beyond line-of-sight terminal, the Pentagon announced Feb. 25. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The demonstration, conducted late last month, included a series of uplink and downlink communication tests that involved passing voice and data communication between a third-generation (Block 8) FAB-T unit [&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-85248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85248"}],"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=85248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}