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Satellite Communications

If you aren't talking,
you're just camping.

Introduction
Bandwidth
Terminals

Overview

UHF - Ultra-High Frequency		FLEETSATCOM Operations AFSATCOM Operations SCS Operations
Space segment	User Segment	Control Segment
TACSAT Marisat / Gapfiller FLTSATCOM LEASAT UFO MUOS AFSATCOM SLDCOM	AN/ARC-187 AN/GSC-40A AN/MSC-64 AN/PSC-3 AN/PSC-5 SPITFIRE AN/PSC-7 AN/URC-101 AN/URC-110 AN/VSC-7 AN/WSC-3 AN/WSC-5 M2T
SHF - Super-High Frequency		DSCS Operations
Space Segment	User Segment	Control Segment
DSCS-1 DSCS-2 DSCS-3 DSCS-4 WGS OWS TACSAT NATO-1 NATO-2 NATO-3 NATO-4	AN/FSC-9 AN/FSC-78 AN/FSC-79 AN/GSC-39 AN/GSC-49 AN/GSC-52 AN/MSC-46 AN/TSC-54 AN/TSC-85B GMF AN/TSC-86 AN/TSC-93B GMF AN/TSC-94B GMF AN/TSC-100 GMF AN/TSC-143 STAR-T AN/TSC-143? TSS AN/TSC-152 LMST AN/USC-59 LMST AN/USC-60 FTSAT AN/WSC-6 ITP LST-8000	DSCS Baseband AN/FSQ-142 DASA AN/FYQ-110 DOSS AN/MSQ-114 AN/TSQ-172
EHF - Extremely-High Frequency
Space Segment	User Segment	Control Segment
Milstar-1 Milstar-2 Milstar-3 / AEHF WGS OWS TCS NSSS FLTSATCOM EHF Polar Adjunct APS	AMCAS AN/PSC-11 SCAMP AN/TRC-194 AN/TSC-124 SCOTT AN/USC-38 AWT CPT FAB-T ILES ITP K-Sat SMART-T SOTM SUBHDR	TMCC
Other Systems		Global Information Grid (GIG) TCA - Transformational Communications Architecture FCA - Future Communications Architecture
Space Segment	User Segment	Control Segment
SCORE Courier Advent Program 313 / DRS LES Mission-22 [M-22] SDS-1 SDS-2 CAPRICORN TSAT	ITP DSTS-G GMT CHARIOT Lasercom	DoD Teleport System
Leased Commercial
Space Segment	User Segment	Control Segment
Global Broadcast Service TDRSS	AN/TSC-152 LMST AN/USC-59 LMST INMARSAT Iridium Joint Network Transport Capability (JNTC-S) Joint Network Node-Network (JNN) CSS SATCOM Support Wide Area Network (SWAN)

Other Resources

• FM 24-11 TACTICAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS, 20 September 1990
• FM 24-24 SIGNAL DATA REFERENCES: SIGNAL EQUIPMENT Section V. Multichannel Satellite Communications Terminals
• CHAPTER 7 - Space Systems SECTION 2 - Satellite Communications (SATCOM) ARMY SPACE REFERENCE TEXT
• U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command [reference list]
  Automated Information Systems (AIS) Design Guidance
  • Long-Haul Transmission Systems -- Version 1.1 -- 15 April 1997
  • Long-Haul Transmission Systems Updated, 26 Aug 98
  • Military Satellite Transmission Working (August 1998)
  • Commercial Satellite Transmission - Working (August 1998)
  • Terrestrial Systems - Upated, 26 Aug 98

• Satellite Communications for the Warfighter - MILSATCOM Handbook Volume 1 - Air Force Space Command
• NTP 2 SECTION 1 (D) NAVY SUPER HIGH FREQUENCY SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
  
  
• MILSATCOM Joint Program Office
• Fiscal Year 1997 Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence and Electronic Warfare and Sensors (C4IEW&S) Project Book U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) - April 1997
• OPNAV N6 - Space, Information Warfare, Command and Control Directorate
• DAMA Net SPAWAR Charleston Code 541
• UHF SATCOM DAMA Test Facility
• Space Communications Architecture 29 August 1996

Satellite Communications
in the Gulf War