Wideband global satcom wgs satellite order and deliveries.
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Wgs can tailor coverage in near real time and connect x band and ka band users anywhere within the field of view.
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The remaining coverage area is an x band earth coverage beam.
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The wgs design includes 19 independent coverage areas that can be used throughout the field of view of each satellite to serve warfighters between 65 north and south latitude.
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Each wgs satellite is digitally channelized and transponded.
Its coverage area stretches from the u s.
The wgs fleet is controlled by four army wideband satellite operation centers that receive telemetry and send commands to up to three satellites per center.
Each wgs satellite provides service in both the x and ka frequency bands with the unprecedented ability to cross band between the two frequencies onboard the satellite.
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Western coast to southeast asia.
Thus each wgs can supply more than 10 times the capacity of a dscs 3 service life enhancement program slep satellite.
After launch the wgs 1 satellite was given the us military designation usa 195.
The wideband global satcom wgs satellite system previously known as the wideband gapfiller satellites is a constellation of satellites in geosynchronous orbit providing worldwide communication coverage for tactical and fixed users.
Thus each wgs can supply more than 10 times the capacity of a dscs 3 service life enhancement program slep satellite.
The us air force extended the order value to 1 09bn in september 2011 to facilitate the production launch and on orbit activation of the seventh satellite and also to procure the long lead materials for an eighth wgs satellite.
Online 3d satellite tracking with more than 15 000 satellites pass and flare predictor.
Wgs augments the one way global broadcast service gbs service through new two way ka band service.
The complete wgs constellation will consist of a total of ten satellites eight u s.
