Satellites’ Critical Infrastructure: Ground Systems or Bringing Satellites Down-to-

Earth: Ground SystemsPTC Topical Session 10 Conference Presentation

18 January, 2016

Satellites’ Critical Infrastructure: Ground Systems or

Bringing Satellites Down-to-Earth: Ground Systems

Stuart Daughtridge

Kratos

PTC Topical Session 10 Conference Presentation

18 January, 2016

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rely on Kratos products80%+

90%+ of U.S. space missions

employ Kratos solutions

Industry at an Inflection PointSupply Side:• Massive capacity growth

– HTS– LEO/MEO constellations– Q/V bands, Laser comms

• Bandwidth prices dropping• Selling Mbps vs. MHz• DVB-S2X

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Satellite Capacity Growth

Demand Side:• Connectivity

– Convergence– Mobility

• Over The Top (OTT)

Ground Systems will Enable the Future

Architecture Flexibility Using Digital IF

• Virtualization– Cloud processing center

– Antenna placement

– Hub consolidation

– Hub extension

• Convergence– LTAC

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• Site Diversity/Combining– Rain fade

– Reliability

– Disadvantage user

– Use of 3rd party assets

• Simplify Operations– IF infrastructure to IP

Changing Interference Challenge

Harder problems:• More complex networks

• More dynamic services

• More price sensitive

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Better solutions:• Lower cost sensors

• Visualization/management

• Mitigation• SatGuard: VSAT ID

• SigX: Signal cancellation

• Carrier ID

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