SATCOM for Net-Centric Warfare — October 2017 Milsatmagazine
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SATCOM For Net-Centric Warfare — October 2017 MilsatMagazine Military Space 2.0 Meeting SATCOM Mobility & Connectivity Demands Flat Panel Antennas The Dawning of a New Supply Chain The HPA Corner: Catching the Wave The Coming Satellite Cyber Crisis Planning for Space Flexibility Government & Commercial Collaboration Satellite, Not Walls, Secure Borders ORS-5 launches aboard a Minotaur IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida — Photo is courtesy of James Murati. Publishing OPeratiOns seniOr COntributOrs authOrs Silvano Payne, Publisher + Senior Writer Simon Davies, Spectra Doug Campbell Hartley G. Lesser, Editorial Director Tony Bardo, Hughes Simon Davies Ryan Johnson Pattie Waldt, Executive Editor Richard Dutchik, Dutchik Comm. Chris Forrester, Broadgate Publications Hayley McGuire Jill Durfee, Sales Director, Associate Editor Karl Fuchs, iDirect Government Services John Monahan Simon Payne, Development Director Dr. Rowan Gilmore, EM Solutions Ulf Sandberg Donald McGee, Production Manager Bob Gough, Carrick Communications Staff Sgt. Christie Smith Dan Makinster, Technical Advisor Ryan Schradin, SES GS Mike Sweeney Koen Willems, Newtec Airman Kylee Thomas Dr. Yifan Wang table Of COntents advertiser index ULA Lights Up the Night with NROL-42 Launch ........................................5 ACORDE Technologies .............................................................................23 U.S.A.F.’s ORS-5 Satellite Launches Via Orbital ATK’s Minotaur IV ..........6 Advantech Wireless ....................................................................................2 U.S.A.F. Coordinating the Uncontrollable ..................................................8 AFCEA-MILCOM .......................................................................................58 U.S.A.F. X-37B Launch Success by SpaceX ..............................................11 AvL Technologies .......................................................................................9 Two AFRL Mission Contracts Received by Blue Canyon Technologies ....12 Comtech EF Data .....................................................................................19 Harris Develops Battlespace ....................................................................14 U.S.A.F.'s FalconSAT-3 Opens for Amateur Radio Enthusiasts ................14 Comtech TCS ............................................................................................59 SMI’s Mobile Deployable Comms Conference .........................................16 Comtech Xicom Technology ................................................................ 1 + 3 Substitute Navigation Satellite Being Worked On by ISRO ....................17 CPI Satcom Products ................................................................................60 Communications in the Virgin Islands Restored by U.S.A.F.....................18 DataPath, Inc. ...........................................................................................21 STEM Day with the Iowa National Guard ................................................19 Economist Events .....................................................................................35 Spectra Group Has Partnership Extension with Airbus ...........................22 EM Solutions, Inc. (EMS) ..........................................................................27 New O.C.H. Micro Circular Connectors Released ....................................23 U.S. Coast Guard into Action Post Hurricane IRMA ................................24 iDirect Government ..................................................................................11 U.S.A.F. Communicates with ORS-5 Using DISA Managed Network ......25 Intelsat General Corporation ......................................................................4 ND SatCom Developers Network for Bolivian Air Defence ....................26 L-3 Narda-MITEQ ......................................................................................29 Harris Adds Suite B Security to Manpack Radio ......................................27 MITEC VSAT / Alga Microwave..................................................................7 Military Space 2.0: Countering Mounting Challenges ..............................28 to a Peaceful Space Environment Newtec CY ...............................................................................................13 by John Monahan NORSAT International, Inc. ......................................................................17 Meeting SATCOM Mobility and Connectivity Demands ..........................32 Satnews Digital Editions ..........................................................................51 by Ulf Sandberg Flat Panel Antennas for Ka-Band SATCOM ..............................................36 SES Government Solutions .......................................................................15 by Dr. Yifan Wang SMi Group — Maritime Information Warfare 2017 .................................41 The Dawning of a New Space Supply Chain — .......................................38 How Can the U.S. Military Cash In? SMi Group (MSM) — Global MilSatCom London 2017 ............................31 by Doug Campbell Space Systems Loral (SSL) ........................................................................25 The HPA Corner: Catching the Wave .......................................................40 W.B. Walton Enterprises, Inc. ..................................................................43 by Hayley McGuire The Coming Satellite Cyber Crisis ............................................................44 by Ryan Johnson SatCom Frontier Perspectives ..................................................................46 MilsatMagazine is published 11 times a year by Satnews Publishers, 800 Siesta Way, Sonoma, CA, 95476, USA — Phone: (707) 939-9306 / Fax: (707) 939-9235 © 2017 Satellite, Not Walls, Secure the Border ...................................................48 Satnews Publishers — We reserve the right to edit all submitted materials to meet Cutting-Edge Technology for Battlefield COTM ......................................52 publication content guidelines, as well as for grammar and spelling errors, or to move by Simon Davies articles to an alternative issue to accommodate publication space requirements, or remove content due to space restrictions. 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All included imagery is courtesy of, and copyright to, the respective companies and/or named individuals. 4 MilsatMagazine — October 2017 Dispatches ULA Lights Up The Night With NROL-42 Launch intelligence-related global communications, precision activities for U.S. navigation, early warning of missile national Security. launches and potential military The NRO is the aggression, signals intelligence, and nation's eyes and ears near real-time imagery to U.S. forces in space, supporting to support the war on terrorism and policy makers, the other continuing operations. Armed Services, NRO satellites also support civil the Intelligence customers in response to disaster Community, relief and environmental research. Departments of State, Justice and Treasury, Scientists created a global environment and civil agencies. All database using NRO imagery to of them depend on help predict climate change, assess The NROL-42 satellite launch by ULA's Atlas V rocket. the unique capabilities crop production, map habitats of NRO systems provide. endangered species, track oil spills, The night lit up as the launch of and study wetlands. NRO data also ULA's Atlas V lift occurred, carrying Frequently, NRO systems are the only forms the basis for products that help NROL-42 with a classified national collectors able to access critical areas depict and assess the devastation in security payload at 10:49:47 PDT on of interest, and data from overhead areas affected by natural disasters. Saturday, September 26, from Space sensors provides unique information Launch Complex 3, Vandenberg Air and perspectives not available from The National Reconnaissance Office Force Base, California. other sources. is taking a different approach. Though the NRO often deploys This launch moved forward after the The NRO's key customers and mission small experimental systems, the original launch date on Thursday, partners include: policy makers, the preponderance of its requirements September 21 was scrubbed due to a Armed Services, the Intelligence will likely continue to be met with very battery that needed to be replaced on Community, Departments of State, large, highly capable and expensive the Atlas V. Justice and Treasury, and civil agencies. satellites, said U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Susan Mashiko, deputy NRO director. NROL-42 is believed to be the All of them depend on the unique second spacecraft in the newest capabilities NRO systems provide: The NRO's innovation also inspires generation of Molniya-orbit signals technology in everyday life with intelligence satellites unofficially • Monitoring the proliferation of contributions to medical imaging, called Trumpet Follow-On. The weapons