Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) is a high-capacity United States Space Force satellite communications system. It provides flexible, high data rate communications for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), governmental organizations, and international partners, including Canada and Australia. Manufactured by Boeing, the WGS system consists of satellites, control operators, and terminal users, offering services in X and Ka frequency bands and augmenting systems like the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS). WGS provides essential communications services, allowing Combatant Commanders to exert command and control of their tactical forces, from peacetime to military operations.
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The Wideband Global SatCom WGS-11 mission is the last mission in the WGS series and will be launched onboard a Vulcan Centaur from the eastern range into a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
WGS-11+ (Wideband Global Satcom WGS-11) will launch on a Vulcan Centaur from the Eastern Range into a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
The first Wideband Global Satcom satellite was launched in 2007.
The Lite Sat 2.2A terminal delivers 50 Mbps on a Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) GEO network and up to 600×600 Mbps on SES’s O3b MEO system.
EM Solutions completed development of a satellite terminal antenna diversity system (ADS) by achieving Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) certification, allowing the ADS to be used with terminals accessing the military WGS.
Space Delta 8 has 635 personnel and operates 66 satellites, including 37 GPS, six Advanced EHF communications, five Milstar, two Enhanced Polar System hosted payloads, 10 Wideband Global Satcom (WGS), and six Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) satellites.
The Air Force launched a three-year study in 2016 on using commercial systems to augment and replace Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellites.
The Air Force developed a flexible modem interface that enables terminals to communicate with Wideband Global Satcom and commercial geostationary (GEO) satellites.
Aberdeen Proving Grounds certified the XTREME-256 matrix switch to operate in AN/GSC-52B Modernization of Enterprise Terminal (MET) Ka- and X-band Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) stations.
Teledyne Paradise Datacom completed the Wideband Global Satcom certification process with its software-defined modems QFlex-400 and Q-Lite Compact Modem Card.
Peraton helps ensure the safe operation of the Space Based Space Surveillance, Operationally Responsive Space-5, Advanced Extremely High Frequency, Milstar, Wideband Global SATCOM, and Defense Satellite Communications System satellites.
Boeing received approval on 2020-10-07 to continue development of a new satellite for the U.S. military’s Wideband Global Satcom constellation.
PTES will initially use the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system and is planned to expand to include commercial satellites and PTS satellites.
Congress funded the 11th Wideband Global Satcom satellite in 2018 and Boeing is under contract to deliver WGS-11 by 2024.
The Space Force will develop a plan to supplement and replace the capacity provided by the Department of Defense’s Wideband Global Satcom constellation over the next decade as those satellites go out of service.
The 2021 RDT&E request supports development of a new family of secure tactical communications satellites, hosted payloads, and a new Wideband Global Satcom (WGS-11).
One goal of the AoA was to identify options to replace and supplement Boeing-built Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellites that began deploying in 2007.
Boeing received a $605,000,000 contract for production of the Air Force’s 11th Wideband Global SATCOM satellite, WGS-11.
The initial PTES will use the Wideband Global Satcom system and be expanded later to include commercial satellites and the PTS system.
The Air Force is considering a Boeing proposal to deliver the next Wideband Global Satcom satellite, WGS-11, in orbit as a build-and-deliver package.