{"id":86493,"date":"2010-08-13T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-selects-seakr-to-develop-iridium-next-communication-processor\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:05:00","slug":"thales-selects-seakr-to-develop-iridium-next-communication-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-selects-seakr-to-develop-iridium-next-communication-processor\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Selects Seakr to Develop Iridium Next Communication Processor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-12-10] <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> has contracted <strong>Seakr Engineering<\/strong> to develop the communication processor for the <strong>Iridium<\/strong> Next constellation, the prime contractor announced Aug. 11.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Seakr will develop a communication processor will connect user RF links, satellite-to-satellite cross links and satellite-to-gateway links on Earth while managing network and routing user traffic. The processor will support existing waveforms to provide a seamless transition from Iridium\u2019s existing constellation to Iridium Next satellites, which are scheduled to begin launching in the first quarter of 2015.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The engineering firm said the processor also will have the potential to support new applications beyond voice communications and is being developed with government and commercial cooperative relationships in mind.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cSeakr has quietly invested significant research and development resources in high performance processing solutions for spacecraft applications. Seakr is extremely proud to be a part of the Thales Alenia Space and Iridium team and to help them set the standard for mobile satellite communication services,\u201d Seakr Co-Owner Scott Anderson said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-12-10] Thales Alenia Space has contracted Seakr Engineering to develop the communication processor for the Iridium Next constellation, the prime contractor announced Aug. 11. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Seakr will develop a communication processor will connect user RF links, satellite-to-satellite cross links and satellite-to-gateway links on Earth while managing network and routing user traffic. The processor will support [&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-86493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86493"}],"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=86493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}