News L3Harris Demonstrates Antenna Technology

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L3Harris Technologies has successfully completed a technology demonstration, under a Defence Innovation Unit prototype contract, for the US Space Force satellite communication system to improve communications with the agency’s growing number of satellites.

The company developed a Multi-Band Multi-Mission (MBMM) phased array ground antenna system and integrated it with the Space Force’s Satellite Communication Network system in order to demonstrate multiple simultaneous satellite contacts. Traditional parabolic or radio antennas can contact only one satellite at a time.

The MBMM system’s all-digital architecture established 16 simultaneous contacts during the demonstration. The system can scale up to support hundreds of concurrent satellite connections from a single phased array antenna system, reducing the physical footprint needed for ground antennas and lowering the infrastructure cost per satellite contact.

The L3Harris demonstration successfully confirmed live contacts with Space Force satellites across multiple orbital regimes at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado.

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L3Harris Demonstrates Antenna Technology to the US Space Force as the growing service inducts an increasing number of satellites.

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