{"id":52677,"date":"2023-09-25T20:48:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T12:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-space-force-plans-to-buy-communications-data-from-luxembourgs-meo-program\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T20:48:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T12:48:23","slug":"us-space-force-plans-to-buy-communications-data-from-luxembourgs-meo-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-space-force-plans-to-buy-communications-data-from-luxembourgs-meo-program\/","title":{"rendered":"US Space Force Plans to Buy Communications Data from Luxembourg\u2019s MEO Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Next year, the <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong>\u2019s Space Systems Command (SSC) plans to buy military satellite communications (SATCOM) data from Luxembourg\u2019s Medium Earth Orbit Global Services (MGS) program, which gives Luxembourg access to SES\u2019s O3b mPOWER constellation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is going to buy the satcom service from Luxembourg,\u201d Barbara Baker, SSC\u2019s deputy program executive officer for military communications and Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT), told a Space Force Association virtual audience on Sept. 21. \u201cThat\u2019s an amazing opportunity that\u2019s going to open up for us next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luxembourg\u2019s Directorate of Defence has said that O3b mPOWER will have 11 satellites at an altitude of nearly 5,000 miles in MEO. O3b mPOWER satellites are to feature \u201ca unique cutting-edge technology, with high throughput and low latency in the equatorial plane, enabling a secure sovereign network to be set up,\u201d the directorate has said.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, SES completed a $450 million acquisition of DRS Global Enterprise Solutions (GES) in a deal to double the size of SES\u2019 business with the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>SSC is \u201cputting a huge emphasis on partnership,\u201d Baker said on Sept. 21. \u201cWe are going to get to a more resilient [communications] architecture, if we partner, and we\u2019ll get there faster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baker, who manages 1,800 personnel, including contractors at SSC, and a budget of $13 billion, cited GPS as an example of international military cooperation on PNT. SSC collaborates with 59 allies to provide them the user equipment to allow them to use the GPS constellation, \u201cespecially our military code [M-code].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deanna Ryals, SSC\u2019s director of international affairs, is in charge of spearheading such allied collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><em>A version of this article was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next year, the U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command (SSC) plans to buy military satellite communications (SATCOM) data from Luxembourg\u2019s Medium Earth Orbit Global Services (MGS) program, which gives Luxembourg access to SES\u2019s O3b mPOWER constellation. \u201cThe United States is going to buy the satcom service from Luxembourg,\u201d Barbara Baker, SSC\u2019s deputy program executive officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}