Defense Satellite Communications System
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Lockheed-Built Air Force Satellite Takes New Mission With NSF’s South Pole Station
A Lockheed Martin-built legacy U.S. Air Force satellite has begun to provide communications services for the National Science Foundation‘s South Pole-based Amundsen-Scott Station. Lockheed said Tuesday the Defense Satellite Communications System III B7 replaced NSF’s decommissioned Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-3 in June to establish communication and data links between Amundsen-Scott Station and the U.S. Antarctic Program facility in New Zealand. DSCS III B7 […] More
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Harris Hands Army Comm, Missile Defense SATCOM Terminals
Harris Corp. has delivered the first four satellite communications terminals to the U.S. Army for the intended backbone of the branch’s communications and missile defense systems. The company is the prime contractor for the Modernization of Enterprise Terminal program and is responsible for replacing up to 80 strategic satellite communications terminals around the world, Harris said Monday. This delivery comprised […] More