{"id":87802,"date":"2009-12-09T19:16:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeing-receives-first-signals-from-wgs-3\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:46:51","slug":"boeing-receives-first-signals-from-wgs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeing-receives-first-signals-from-wgs-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Receives First Signals From WGS-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-09-09] <strong>Boeing<\/strong> has acquired the first on-orbit signals from the WGS-3 spacecraft, the third of six Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellites built for the <strong>U.S. Department of Defense<\/strong>, Boeing announced Dec. 8.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Boeing reported that WGS-3, launched Dec. 5 by a <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> Delta IV rocket, is functioning normally and ready to begin orbital maneuvers and operational testing. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; WGS-3 will be placed into geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean. Its payload aims to provide reconfigurable coverage areas and the ability to connect U.S. military X-band and Ka-band users anywhere within their field of view.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Boeing is building three more WGS satellites for the U.S. Air Force. WGS-4, WGS-5 and WGS-6 are planned for launch between 2011 and 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-09-09] Boeing has acquired the first on-orbit signals from the WGS-3 spacecraft, the third of six Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellites built for the U.S. Department of Defense, Boeing announced Dec. 8. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Boeing reported that WGS-3, launched Dec. 5 by a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket, is functioning normally and ready to begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-87802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87802"}],"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=87802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87980,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87802\/revisions\/87980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}