{"id":607445,"date":"2019-04-16T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=cf08cd80e8442cc169cf539fa4240507"},"modified":"2019-04-16T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T13:11:00","slug":"edrs-c-antenna-performance-verification-at-the-airbus-catr-facility-in-germany-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=607445","title":{"rendered":"EDRS-C antenna performance verification at the Airbus CATR facility in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EDRS-C is currently in the anechoic test chamber at the Compact
\nAntenna Test Range at Airbus in Ottobrunn Germany, where the satellite is currently
\nundergoing verification of the antennas performance before shipment to its launch site in Kourou in June.
\nThe European Data Relay System (EDRS) is designed to relay data between satellites in
\nlow orbit and Earth via satellites in geostationary orbit. It allows transmission of large quantities of data with reduced delay, using innovative laser communication technology.
\nIt is a new, independent European satellite system, and is a public\u2013private partnership
\nbetween ESA and Airbus (DE) as part of ESA\u2019s efforts to federate industry around large-
\nscale programmes, stimulating technology developments and achieving economic
\nbenefits.
\nEDRS will form the \u2018SpaceDataHighway\u2019for Europe, made up of one hosted data-relay
\npayload (EDRS-A), one data-relay payload on a dedicated satellite (EDRS-C) and a
\ndedicated ground segment.
\nEDRS dramatically increases the speed with which low-orbiting satellites can deliver
\ntheir information to users, by relaying their data via the EDRS payloads in geostationary orbit to European ground stations.
\nWith EDRS ground stations in Redu (BE), Harwell (UK) and two in Weilheim (DE) plus
the Italian Space Agency\u2019s user ground station in Matera (IT), EDRS is the first truly European laser communications network. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

EDRS-C is currently in the anechoic test chamber at the Compact
\nAntenna Test Range at Airbus in Ottobrunn Germany, where the satellite is currently
\nundergoing verification of the antennas performance before shipment to its launch site in Kourou in June.
\nThe European Data Relay System (EDRS) is designed to relay data between satellites in
\nlow orbit and Earth via satellites in geostationary orbit. It allows transmission of large quantities of data with reduced delay, using innovative laser communication technology.
\nIt is a new, independent European satellite system, and is a public–private partnership
\nbetween ESA and Airbus (DE) as part of ESA’s efforts to federate industry around large-
\nscale programmes, stimulating technology developments and achieving economic
\nbenefits.
\nEDRS will form the ‘SpaceDataHighway’for Europe, made up of one hosted data-relay
\npayload (EDRS-A), one data-relay payload on a dedicated satellite (EDRS-C) and a
\ndedicated ground segment.
\nEDRS dramatically increases the speed with which low-orbiting satellites can deliver
\ntheir information to users, by relaying their data via the EDRS payloads in geostationary orbit to European ground stations.
\nWith EDRS ground stations in Redu (BE), Harwell (UK) and two in Weilheim (DE) plus
the Italian Space Agency’s user ground station in Matera (IT), EDRS is the first truly European laser communications network. <\/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-607445","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\/607445","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=607445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609525,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607445\/revisions\/609525"}],"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=607445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}