Marine Corps clasp High-Throughput Satellites

In U.S. Marine Corps operations communications have always played an essential role however that role has grown increasingly important as technology has evolved.

High-throughput satellites (HTS) empower commanders today, to make informed decisions faster, making satellite communications a strategic asset during missions and increasing the Marine Corps’ reliance on advanced satellite technologies.

Delivery higher data throughputs on a global scale via a wide variety of user-chosen waveforms, modems, and antennas is done with the advances in commercial satellite technology, the Marine Corps and the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in October 2016, conducted testing to evaluate HTS technologies to support Networking-on-the-Move (NOTM) demands.

Marine users were able to achieve a total simultaneous throughput capacity of approximately 9.0 Mbps while operating over Intelsat 29e. This is almost five times more throughput than the below 2 Mbps in the same amount of bandwidth on traditional wide-beam satellites through teeny aperture terminals. Five satellites were proposed for Intelsat EpicNG HTS Ku-band, in all over the world, and in short time they will provide global coverage when the sixth enters service.

However, the technology is only one part of the equation. Kalinauskas writes, “The mission of Marine Corps communications is to assure that information is reliably transmitted from one point to another and to achieve this mission we not only need modern equipment but also by improving the people and processes to make it a reality.”

By: Lubhawani Sharma

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