Wideband Global Satcom-11 Satellite to Feature Agile Beams to Avoid Jamming

摘要

The U.S. Space Force's Wideband Global Satcom-11 (WGS-11) communications satellite will feature agile beams to avoid jamming, but a possible Mitigation and Anti-Jam Enhancement (MAJE) upgrade for WGS-11 ground stations would have to go through the requirements process. Boeing [BA] builds WGS, and Space Force plans to receive and launch WGS-11 in 2024. WGS-11 is to have twice the communications capacity of each of the current 10 WGS satellites. "While WGS-11 does not have MAJE capability built-in, it does have the ability to tailor/shape each of its individual narrower beams thereby increasing its mission flexibility and responsiveness against jamming," per a Sept. 21 email from Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles AFB, Calif. "However, if WGS-11 were to add ground anti-jam capability, the WGS-11 program would need to go through a similar WGS 1-10 process."