As the
Mobile User Objective System demonstrates growing capability, development of mobile terminals for broad spectrum of users of this next-generation narrowband satcom system is gathering pace.
The agreement would support the US Navy contract that was awarded to Lockheed Martin to build the
Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).
Launch of the first of as many as five geostationary satellites for the
Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), as the new system is called, is planned for 2010, providing users deployed on the battlefield with data and voice communications at up to 64 kilobits per second.
While much of that interservice interaction will occur through joint program offices, like those of MILSATCOM or GPS, it will also occur through a single service's procurement or operation of a system, such as the Navy procurement of the
Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), the Navy's newest Ultra-High Frequency satellite, and the Army operation of the communications packages on DSCS and the Wideband Gapfiller Satellite.
Loral Space and Communications announced that the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has awarded a Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) team, led by Raytheon, a $40 M Component Advanced Development (CAD) contract to develop the US Navy's $6 B, next-generation, satellite-based mobile communications system, the
Mobile User Objective System (MUOS):
Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded a $39,977,703 firm-fixed-price, multiple award contract for component advanced development phase of the
Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).
Marine Corps has awarded Harris a $75 million order to provide
Mobile User Objective System, or MUOS, narrowband satellite communication upgrades to the service's Falcon III AN/PRC-117G manpack radio fleet.
The radio can transmit voice, data and situational awareness simultaneously through Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking applications, VHF/UHF line-of-sight and legacy satellite communication while offering a path to future software-only updates for
Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), SATURN and other emerging waveforms, officials said.
* The Navy's
mobile user objective system communications satellite will be fully operational by 2019 and is expected to provide ground forces with unprecedented connectivity.
Two Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) unfurlable mesh antenna reflectors successfully deployed October 30 on orbit onboard the US Navy's fifth
Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) satellite, the company said.
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-November 14, 2016-Harris unfurlable mesh reflectors deploy on
mobile user objective system satellite