{"id":56242,"date":"2021-12-07T23:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-army-uses-ses-meo-technology-in-multi-orbit-tests\/"},"modified":"2021-12-07T23:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:27:04","slug":"us-army-uses-ses-meo-technology-in-multi-orbit-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-army-uses-ses-meo-technology-in-multi-orbit-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army Uses SES MEO Technology in Multi-Orbit Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SES Government Solutions<\/strong> has been involved in a series of trials with the <strong>U.S. Army<\/strong> that have tested commercial satellite constellations in multiple orbits, as well as services and ground terminals. SES revealed details of the trials on Dec. 7. The tests are part of the U.S. government\u2019s effort to establish Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) by 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the U.S. Army announced its integrated ground terminal, Phoenix E-Model, would serve Expeditionary Signal Battalion \u2013 Enhanced (ESB-E) formations with the likelihood of expanding operations from traditional Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites to leveraging commercial Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) constellations.<\/p>\n<p>SES Government Solutions, in close cooperation with <strong>Lite Coms<\/strong>, carried out extensive work to update the legacy U.S. Army Phoenix Terminal to be MEO capable for the U.S. Army. The companies said the resultant Lite Sat 2.2A terminal delivers 50 Mbs on a Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) GEO network and up to 600 x 600 Mbps on SES\u2019s O3b MEO system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMEO satellites are unique in their capabilities and SES operates the world\u2019s only commercial MEO satellite constellation. Early next year, SES will launch its second-generation MEO system, O3b mPOWER, which promises to meet and exceed the connectivity requirements of today\u2019s warfighting technologies \u2014 delivering flexible and secure fiber-like connectivity anywhere the mission requires,\u201d said retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Pete Hoene, president and CEO of SES Government Solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SES Government Solutions has been involved in a series of trials with the U.S. Army that have tested commercial satellite constellations in multiple orbits, as well as services and ground terminals. SES revealed details of the trials on Dec. 7. The tests are part of the U.S. government\u2019s effort to establish Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46971,"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-56242","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\/56242"}],"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=56242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}