{"id":222181,"date":"2014-11-27T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"e10362f06514af1383a57511c772fd5d"},"modified":"2014-11-27T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T15:50:00","slug":"the-gold-standard-for-edrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=222181","title":{"rendered":"The gold standard for EDRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/11\/the_gold_standard_for_edrs\/15083319-1-eng-GB\/The_gold_standard_for_EDRS_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Eutelsat-9B satellite with its EDRS-A payload is shown in the anechoic test chamber of Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France. It completed its final antenna pattern tests today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEDRS-A is a hosted package&nbsp;as the first of two nodes of the European Data Relay System set to be launched next year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso known as Europe\u2019s SpaceDataHighway, EDRS will use cutting-edge laser technology to capture and relay information gathered by Earth-observing satellites. By travelling via EDRS\u2019s high-speed links and stationary position over Europe, the satellites\u2019 data reach the ground in near-real time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile EDRS-A\u2019s Laser Communication Terminal is being checked for flight, the terminals on Copernicus\u2019 Sentinel-1A and Alphasat telecom satellite are already fully operational in space, ready to demonstrate their ground-breaking capabilities for multi-gigabit optical communications in space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Friday, 28 November the first Earth observation image gathered by Sentinel-1A and relayed to a ground station at the DLR German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, via Alphasat will be presented at an event at ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/11\/the_gold_standard_for_edrs\/15083319-1-eng-GB\/The_gold_standard_for_EDRS_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Eutelsat-9B satellite with its EDRS-A payload is shown in the anechoic test chamber of Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France. It completed its final antenna pattern tests today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEDRS-A is a hosted package&nbsp;as the first of two nodes of the European Data Relay System set to be launched next year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso known as Europe\u2019s SpaceDataHighway, EDRS will use cutting-edge laser technology to capture and relay information gathered by Earth-observing satellites. By travelling via EDRS\u2019s high-speed links and stationary position over Europe, the satellites\u2019 data reach the ground in near-real time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile EDRS-A\u2019s Laser Communication Terminal is being checked for flight, the terminals on Copernicus\u2019 Sentinel-1A and Alphasat telecom satellite are already fully operational in space, ready to demonstrate their ground-breaking capabilities for multi-gigabit optical communications in space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Friday, 28 November the first Earth observation image gathered by Sentinel-1A and relayed to a ground station at the DLR German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, via Alphasat will be presented at an event at ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}