Is anyone else as excited about the new WGS systems as me? Boeing announced that the AF picked up the option for the 6th satellite in the constellation (funded by Australia).
We are going to be testing the first one out pretty soon and I can't wait. We are putting up a pipe bigger than anything I've seen before.
Once we start using these, the amount of information you can push from one place to another - from the states to the warfighters - it's going to change a lot of things we can do.
Originally posted by DHarris75: Is anyone else as excited about the new WGS systems as me? Boeing announced that the AF picked up the option for the 6th satellite in the constellation (funded by Australia).
We are going to be testing the first one out pretty soon and I can't wait. We are putting up a pipe bigger than anything I've seen before.
Once we start using these, the amount of information you can push from one place to another - from the states to the warfighters - it's going to change a lot of things we can do.
Anyway - just had to post in here my excitement.
It may help close the gap a little. 80% of military bandwidth comes from commercial SATCOM the other 20% is MILSATCOM. The eventual goal is to reverse that ratio.
I've never heard the 80/20 ratio. I've always been tactical.
But I know one WGS payload will have the same capability as all of DSCS III...and Boeing announced they are putting up a 6th one - anyway...I'm pretty excited. From a tactical perspective, we'll be able to do things I didn't think I'd see. We are planning on putting up an 8 meg pipe over the WGS here in the Pacific. It was originally going to be 20 meg, but it was brought down some. But still - 8 meg over a satellite for us...we normally only get a 2 meg pipe. And we are just scraping the surface of what a tactical user "can" get.
We are going to run a test on the first one over the Pacific...
Anyway - I just stepped out of Legacy equipment and DSCS payloads to GMTs and WGS payloads.
Also read that there has been a breakthrough in Tropo technology - according to the article I was reading...it's the first Tropo advance in 30 years. Utilizes one antenna instead of two.
