JIB Antennas will Fly on Canada's RADARSAT

摘要

Lightweight JIB antennas from Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Astro Aerospace business unit will be a part of Canada's RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM). Planned for launch in 2018, the RCM project seeks to provide Canada with new maritime identification capability. Astro Aerospace will provide 13 self-deploying, monopole JIB antennas as part of an Automated Identification System (AIS) being added to the three identical radar-imaging satellites. The satellites will provide C-band radar data to RADARSAT-2 users and add new applications available by way of the three-satellite constellation.