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Space Force and Boeing Announce Completion of PDR for WGS-11, as Company Says Production to Start Next Year

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, October 8th, 2020

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Space Force and Boeing Announce Completion of PDR for WGS-11, as Company Says Production to Start Next Year

An artist's rendition of the WGS-11 satellite (Boeing Photo)

U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., has completed its preliminary design review of the Boeing [BA] Wideband Global Satcom-11 (WGS-11) satellite, as the company prepares to start production next year for satellite delivery and launch in 2024. WGS-11 is to have twice the communications capacity of each of the current 10 WGS satellites, as well as narrower, agile beams to provide increased anti-jamming in electronically contested environments. SMC said on Oct. 6…

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