Kratos Defense & Security Solutions<\/b> and SES<\/b> demonstrated a virtualized satcom ground system for the U.S. Army Futures Command, over the SES O3b satellite network, the companies announced April 17. <\/p>\n
The project was funded through the Network Cross-Functional Team (N-CFT) established by the Army Futures Command. The demonstration for the U.S. Army\u2019s Combat Capabilities Development Command used a remote terminal in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and a gateway in Lima, Peru. The gateway was connected to a software-defined Kratos OpenSpace vStar hub system located in Virginia. It was orchestrated and conducted over SES\u2019s O3b Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite network. <\/p>\n
Kratos and SES said it showed a flexible network architecture with simultaneous communication pathways for resilient satcom. The companies demonstrated seamless operation supporting satellites in MEO on a \u201cmake-before-break\u201d mode, transferring coverage between satellites over SES\u2019s O3b MEO satellite network.<\/p>\n
\u201cSES\u2019s software reconfigurable approach will future-proof ground systems and simplify the interoperability of multi-constellation, multi-orbit, multi-platform satellite services as well as standards-based integration with terrestrial networks,\u201d said Saba Wehbe, senior vice president of Service Engineering and Delivery of SES. <\/p>\n
Kratos recently performed a similar demonstration using OpenSpace with Telesat Government Solutions and Cobham Satcom for the U.S. Army\u2019s Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T).<\/p>\n
\u201cOpenSpace is the first to leverage containers to orchestrate the transfer of communication sessions in a standards-based, open, COTS platform environment. Using a containerized architecture for this make-before-break handover is a significant advancement in satcom technology,\u201d said Chris Badgett, vice president of technology for Kratos Space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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