{"id":86517,"date":"2010-08-07T01:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-delivers-military-chirp-sensor-to-orbital-for-integration-on-ses-2\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T01:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:06:56","slug":"ses-delivers-military-chirp-sensor-to-orbital-for-integration-on-ses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-delivers-military-chirp-sensor-to-orbital-for-integration-on-ses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Delivers Military CHIRP Sensor to Orbital for Integration on SES-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-06-10] <strong>SES World Skies<\/strong>\u2019 U.S. Government Solutions Division has delivered the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) sensor assembly to manufacturer <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong> for installation on the SES-2 satellite, SES announced Aug. 5.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The sensor, developed by <strong>Science Applications International Corp.<\/strong> (SAIC), was developed for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to support testing for wide field-of-view, staring infrared sensor capabilities for a range of overhead persistent infrared missions.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The SAIC CHIRP sensor features a telescope that can view a quarter of the earth from geosynchronous orbit and is equipped with a 4-megapixel focal plane array, manufactured by Teledyne, which is sensitive in both short-wave and medium-wave infrared.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe will now test the CHIRP sensor with a set of electronics known as the Secondary Payload Interface (SPI),\u201d Orbital Program Manager Brent Armand said in a statement. \u201cThe SPI is a key enabler for hosting military payloads because it provides a secure, two-way communication channel to the government payload through a standard commercial telecommunication transponder. After checking the electrical interfaces, Orbital and SAIC technicians will mount the sensor to the earth-facing panel of the satellite for full-up spacecraft mechanical and thermal testing.\u201d<br \/>\nSES expects to launch SES-2 in the second half of 2011. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-06-10] SES World Skies\u2019 U.S. Government Solutions Division has delivered the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) sensor assembly to manufacturer Orbital Sciences for installation on the SES-2 satellite, SES announced Aug. 5. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The sensor, developed by Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), was developed for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center 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-86517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86517"}],"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=86517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}