{"id":58052,"date":"2021-02-19T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-force-tested-geo-location-of-jamming-signals-for-wgs-satellites\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T22:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:41:02","slug":"space-force-tested-geo-location-of-jamming-signals-for-wgs-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-force-tested-geo-location-of-jamming-signals-for-wgs-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Force Tested Geo-Location of Jamming Signals for WGS Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The U.S. Space Force<\/strong> said on Feb. 17 that its Space and Missile Systems Center\u2019s (SMC) Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) Mitigation and Anti-Jam Enhancement (MAJE) program has demonstrated the geo-location of jamming signals.<\/p>\n

SMC said that it conducted three system tests \u2014 virtually, due to COVID-19 restriction \u2014 in the final quarter of last year. The tests verified MAJE system design and the system\u2019s ability \u201cto provide telemetry and successfully locate signals interfering with WGS satellites\u201d for the 10 Boeing <\/strong>WGS satellites, per SMC.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the support of MAJE prime contractor Boeing, test events were executed by a combined government and industry team,\u201d SMC said. \u201cTesting involved personnel from the Army\u2019s Space and Missile Defense Command, Army Project Manager Defense Communications and Army Transmissions Systems, Boeing, and SMC working together virtually.\u201d<\/p>\n

MAJE is a series of software and hardware upgrades for the Army-operated Global SATCOM Configuration Control Element (GSCCE) ground system to detect, identify, geo-locate and Radio Frequency interference with the WGS 1-10 satellites.<\/p>\n

Space Force plans to receive and launch WGS-11 in 2024. While WGS-11 will not have MAJE, it is to be able to shape its narrower beams against jamming threats and is to have twice the communications capacity of each of the current 10 WGS satellites. An addition of anti-jam MAJE capability for WGS-11 would have to go through the requirements process, SMC said.<\/p>\n

An SMC \u201cPacesetter\u201d program, WGS-11 is to use commercial practices to provide multiple smaller, more agile beams that could be more effective in an electronically contested environment.<\/p>\n

As U.S. policy makers discuss the implications of their view of space as a warfighting domain and reported satellite jamming efforts by China and Russia, SMC said last July that MAJE testing in June verified the ability of ground stations for the U.S. military\u2019s 10 WGS satellites to blunt electronic interference. SMC said that it virtually tested the First Article Test Increment 3 (FAT-3) of MAJE last June 18.<\/p>\n

Virtual testing of MAJE\u2019s FAT-4 in the final quarter of 2020 \u201cshowcased MAJE\u2019s ability to accurately locate signals interfering with WGS,\u201d SMC said on Feb. 17.<\/p>\n

The first two MAJE tests in the last quarter of 2020 \u2013 before FAT-4 \u2013 were the Maintenance Engineering Evaluation, which verified system design and ease of system maintenance \u2013 and the Payload Application Software (PLAS) Formal Qualification Testing (FQT), which \u201cdemonstrated MAJE\u2019s ability to provide satellite telemetry monitoring and control, as well as management of WGS specific payload functionality,\u201d SMC said on Feb. 17.<\/p>\n

FAT-5, the final increment of FAT testing, is to demonstrate that MAJE is ready for integration with Army subsystems.<\/p>\n

The transition of MAJE to the Army for operational use is expected by spring next year. MAJE is to double the anti-jam capabilities of WGS for more than 16,000 users, Maj Shawna Matthys, SMC\u2019s WGS-11+ program manager, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published by our sister publication Defense Daily.<\/p>\n

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