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

Frank Wolfe

Monday, September 21st, 2020

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

A schematic of the communications that Wideband Global Satcom satellites provide to military forces (Boeing Photo)

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…

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