{"id":8976,"date":"2022-12-21T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/av-comm-space-and-defence-acquires-r-g-systems-to-expand-large-antenna-capabilities\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T21:27:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:27:18","slug":"av-comm-space-and-defence-acquires-r-g-systems-to-expand-large-antenna-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/av-comm-space-and-defence-acquires-r-g-systems-to-expand-large-antenna-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Av-Comm Space and Defence Acquires R G Systems to Expand Large Antenna Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1671601953493_638071987565489853.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"Av-Comm Space and Defence Acquires R G Systems to Expand Large Antenna Capabilities\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1671601953493_638071987565489853.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1671601953493_638071987565489853.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>Av-Comm Space and Defence&nbsp;is pleased to announce it has acquired the Central Coast-based large antenna specialist R G Systems. Australian-owned R G Systems has been operating since 2005 and during that time has installed and refurbished more than 100 large antenna systems for defence and civil satellite communications customers.<\/p>\n<p>This strategic acquisition of R G Systems will expand Av-Comm\u2019s technical capability and offer further opportunities for growth at a time when new satellite constellations are proliferating.\u201cThe ground segment is undergoing a revolution in Australia with more and more satellite constellations being launched requiring an ever-increasing number of ground stations to support them,\u201d <strong>Av-Comm Managing Director Michael Cratt<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur objective is to boost Australian content in the ground stations being built and maintained in Australia, as well as expand local manufacturing of the components needed in the ground segment to strengthen the domestic supply chain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a complementary project portfolio, technical expertise and far-reaching geographical experience, Rod Goulding and his team bring to Av-Comm a wealth of industry knowledge and a unique understanding of the complexity of defence programs,\u201d Mr Cratt said.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to learn more about Antennas on everything RF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Av-Comm Space and Defence&nbsp;is pleased to announce it has acquired the Central Coast-based large antenna specialist R G Systems. Australian-owned R G Systems has been operating since 2005 and during that time has installed and refurbished more than 100 large antenna systems for defence and civil satellite communications customers. This strategic acquisition of R G [&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":[26],"class_list":["post-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976"}],"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=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}