Advanced EHF team of Boeing, Lockheed Martin and TRW completed it...
Advanced EHF team of Boeing, Lockheed Martin and TRW completed its system Preliminary Design Review (PDR) demonstrating to its customer, the MILSATCOM Joint Program Office, U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, that it met or exceeded requirements…
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for next-generation highly secure satellite system. Advanced EHF was designed to replace MILSTAR satellites, which were unable to provide complete global coverage after failed launch in 1999 left one of 4 birds in constellation unuseable. New system will employ world’s most complex and sophisticated communications satellites, team said. Budget and scheduling question arose last month when Pentagon panel discussed whether to move ahead with program. Advanced EHF constellation would consist of 4 cross-linked satellites providing secure data through capability and coverage flexibility to regional and global military operations and would be backward compatible with MILSTAR system. Advanced EHF team will focus now on ground and satellite segment PDRs. Team will conduct additional lower level element and component reviews before design system level design review in 2003.