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Top Canadian General Praises Partnership with United States during 9/11 Event
On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Canada sent its top general to Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station in Colorado Springs to celebrate the bi-national partnership that has kept the continent safe for a quarter century after the notorious terrorist strikes. Canadian Forces Gen. Jennie Carignan joined U.S. military leaders near a monument to…
Space Command Wraps Up Wargames to Simulate Future Orbital Fights
Three weeks of space wargames that demonstrated future national security needs wrapped up Tuesday, U.S. Space Command announced. The Apollo Maneuvers tested the command’s plans for “maneuver warfare” in orbit. It’s a new doctrine that Space Command’s Gen. Stephen Whiting announced during Space Foundation‘s 41st Space Symposium in April. The command compared the exercise to…
Space-Ground Communications Testbed
Traditional satellite operations focus on ensuring specific individual satellite constellations are optimally performing their missions. The satellite controllers are generally a mix of ground, vehicle, and payload specialists. These types of operators treat constellation issues as system anomalies and are trained to troubleshoot specific issues. The traditional skill set for basic satellite command control may…
Laser Communications: Capabilities and CONOPs for the Warfighter
The DoD demand for beyond line of site capacity, driven by a more connected tactical environment and explosion in ISR, has continued to grow substantially over the past several decades. While improvements in MILSATCOM and in particular High Capacity COMSATCOM have helped the warfighter’s mission there is still substantial unmet need as there are limits…
Protected Satellite Command and Control (C2) Waveforms and Enhanced Satellite Resiliency
Satellites that were once safe deep in space grow more vulnerable as adversaries are increasingly displaying both the intent and wherewithal to compromise and cripple space capabilities in their efforts to challenge our strategic advantage. These vulnerabilities are driving change in military space and countering them requires more resilience, agility, and speed in order to…
Analysis of Commercial Satcom Alternatives Closing Gaps in National Security Space
The leading commercial Satellite Service Providers are supplying Satcom services with increased network capacity, vastly improved end-user terminal data rates, lower cost of deliver and embedded Cyber security defenses. Taken together these capabilities promise to close many of the operational gaps in National Security Space before the deployment of the Space Enterprise Vision/Space Warfighter Construct.…