Yesterday, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that its subsidiary, SAT Corporation, has received a multi-million dollar order to supply its Monics® carrier monitoring system to Space Systems/Loral. The products will be used to support a customer that provides broadband communications services in remote areas. Monics is an industry-leading radio frequency monitoring system that offers automatic carrier monitoring and advanced interference detection and analysis capabilities.
To support multi-beam monitoring of the customer’s constellation of next-generation Ka band satellites, the Monics system will be implemented on SAT’s new SAT-DSP-6000 instrument. The DSP-6000 uses advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology to produce 250MHz of instantaneous bandwidth and an extended L-band input frequency range of 900MHz to 2450MHz.
Further, Monics’ native scalability and flexibility will enable a fully distributed, autonomous system for monitoring payload traffic and RF interference, including co-channel interference. SAT will also supply antennas and ruggedized trailer-mounted and flyaway systems to be employed as part of approximately 21 monitoring stations. These stations will be capable of monitoring the satellite fleet from anywhere in its service area, including outlying islands.
Monics’ In-service In Orbit Test (IS-IOT) will also be activated to ensure optimum performance of multi-beam satellites. IS-IOT is the industry’s only true in-service IOT solution that does not impact revenue-generating traffic while performing network data stream analysis or characterizing transponder performance at the same time. All of these features make Monics the preferred choice for the industry’s growing Ka band monitoring needs.
SAT Corporation President, Bob Potter, remarked, “We are extremely pleased to be a part of this initiative to provide broadband services, and we are proud to be recognized for the cutting-edge technology behind Monics and our other interference mitigation solutions.”
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