{"id":106034,"date":"2020-04-25T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/lockheed-martin-wins-darpa-contract-to-integrate-blackjack-satellites"},"modified":"2020-04-25T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T16:02:36","slug":"lockheed-martin-wins-darpa-contract-to-integrate-blackjack-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/lockheed-martin-wins-darpa-contract-to-integrate-blackjack-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin wins DARPA contract to integrate Blackjack satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-martin-wins-darpa-contract-to-integrate-blackjack-satellites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a $5.8 million contract for satellite integration work for the Blackjack program, the company announced April 24.<\/p>\n<p>Blackjack is a project to deploy a constellation of 20 satellites in low Earth orbit by 2022 and demonstrate that a LEO system can provide global high-speed communications.<\/p>\n<p>Lockheed Martin will define and manage interfaces between Blackjack\u2019s satellite buses, payloads and the so-called Pit Boss autonomous data processor. The work will be performed at the company\u2019s satellite manufacturing plant in Sunnyvale, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a $5.8 million contract for satellite integration work for the Blackjack program, the company announced April 24. Blackjack is a project to deploy a constellation of 20 satellites in low Earth orbit by 2022 and demonstrate that a LEO system can provide global high-speed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}