{"id":87241,"date":"2010-03-26T23:44:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/comtech-to-deliver-jmaps-spacecraft-bus-to-u-s-navy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T23:44:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:44:39","slug":"comtech-to-deliver-jmaps-spacecraft-bus-to-u-s-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/comtech-to-deliver-jmaps-spacecraft-bus-to-u-s-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Comtech to Deliver JMAPS Spacecraft Bus to U.S. Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-26-10] <strong>Comtech AeroAstro<\/strong> has been awarded a $37.9 million contract to develop and deliver the spacecraft bus for the <strong>U.S. Navy<\/strong>\u2019s Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey (JMAPS) mission by March 2012, Comtech announced March 25. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Based on a phase 3 SBIR award, the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory contract also contains $4.2 million in options for possible post-delivery technical support. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Utilizing Comtech AeroAstro\u2019s Astro 200AS bus, the JMAPS mission aims to update the star position catalog for national security and civil applications. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe capability offered by this spacecraft enables a range of new high-value mission and sensor options on an affordable platform that can be rapidly developed and deployed,\u201d Comtech President and CEO Fred Kornberg said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Thuraya, Comtech Partner on Maritime Terminal<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 19, 2010<br \/>\n[03-19-10] Thuraya is  partnering with Comtech to develop an advanced broadband terminal for  the maritime industry set for launch in September, the companies  announced March 18. The partnership will use Thuraya s satellite  network\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Comtech Wins Additional Blue Force Tracking Order from  the U.S. Army<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 3, 2010<br \/>\n[03-03-10] Comtech Mobile  Datacom received a $20.6 million order under its existing $243.5 million  Blue Force Tracking (BFT) contract with the U.S. Army, the company  announced March 2.  <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">U.S. Army Raises Comtech BFT-1 Contract Ceiling<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 1, 2010<br \/>\n[03-01-10] Comtech Mobile  Datacom has received a $27.5 million ceiling increase to its Blue Force  Tracking (BFT-1) program contract from the U.S. Army, the company  announced Feb. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-26-10] Comtech AeroAstro has been awarded a $37.9 million contract to develop and deliver the spacecraft bus for the U.S. Navy\u2019s Joint Milli-Arcsecond Pathfinder Survey (JMAPS) mission by March 2012, Comtech announced March 25. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Based on a phase 3 SBIR award, the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory contract also contains $4.2 million in options for [&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-87241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87241"}],"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=87241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}