{"id":86325,"date":"2010-08-28T01:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T17:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/harris-selects-general-dynamics-to-upgrade-deliver-goes-r-antennas\/"},"modified":"2010-08-28T01:42:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T17:42:01","slug":"harris-selects-general-dynamics-to-upgrade-deliver-goes-r-antennas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/harris-selects-general-dynamics-to-upgrade-deliver-goes-r-antennas\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Selects General Dynamics to Upgrade, Deliver GOES-R Antennas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-27-10] <strong>General Dynamics Satcom Technologies<\/strong> received an $80 million contract from <strong>Harris Corp<\/strong>. to design, manufacture and install six new 16-meter antennas and upgrade four 9-meter satellite communications antennas for the<strong> U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/strong>\u2018s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R program, General Dynamics announced Aug. 26.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The 16-meter antennas aim to enable critical command, control, telemetry and sensor data communications between GOES-R weather satellites and ground stations and will be installed at the NOAA Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station in Wallops, Va., with a remote backup site in Fairmont, W.Va. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In addition to supporting the new GOES-R program, General Dynamics Satcom Technologies\u2019 antennas will also be compatible with the existing GOES-N through GOES-P series of satellites.&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The antenna deliveries will be aligned with the first GOES-R satellite launch, scheduled for 2015. General Dynamics subcontractor <strong>Nexcom<\/strong>, will support the company\u2019s effort by providing high power amplifiers to the GOES-R program.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">NOAA Issues $130 Million GOES-R Antenna Contract to Harris<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJuly 21, 2010<br \/>\n[07-21-10] The U.S. National  Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Harris Corp. a  10-year, $130 million contract to supply antennas and control systems  for NOAA\u2019s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Northrop to Build GOES-R Cryocoolers<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 9, 2010<br \/>\nNorthrop Grumman has been selected by ITT  Corp. to provide flight cryocoolers for the sensor payloads on two   international geostationary weather satellites, Northrop Grumman   announced Feb. 3. The cryocoolers will be used to reduce  thermal\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Harris Opens Maryland GOES-R Facility<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 8, 2010<br \/>\n[02-08-10] Harris Corp. has  opened a 24,000-square-foot office in Maryland to support its 10-year  GOES-R satellite ground segment contract with the U.S. National Oceanic  and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) , the company announced\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-27-10] General Dynamics Satcom Technologies received an $80 million contract from Harris Corp. to design, manufacture and install six new 16-meter antennas and upgrade four 9-meter satellite communications antennas for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2018s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R program, General Dynamics announced Aug. 26. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The 16-meter antennas aim to [&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-86325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86325"}],"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=86325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}