The World Teleport Association (WTA) has released Ground Segment for the VHTS Generation, a new research report that examines the impact of VHTS satellites on the ground segment, the underlying technologies and their role in reshaping the industry. The report is sponsored by Kratos.
“Very high throughput services in GEO, MEO and LEO have gone from concept to reality with unprecedented speed,” said executive director Robert Bell. “Amid all the excitement of developments in space, the crucial need to update ground technology was ignored. Technology providers and teleport operators, however, have seen it coming and are accelerating efforts to create ground segment as flexible and capable as the assets on orbit.”
WTA members can access the report by signing into their accounts on the WTA website. The report is free for WTA Members and available for purchase by others. Members may directly download the report by following this link and logging in with their user name and password.
A technology expert noted: “A multi-orbit ground infrastructure needs to be global and integrated with the satellites’ traffic orchestration. Real-time traffic orchestration becomes the must-have feature because we will not be able to assign static pools of bandwidth on a certain satellite or group of satellites.”
An expert with a technology provider summed it up: “To support higher data rates, we are now moving into higher frequencies, and we are seeing Ka-band multi-beam antennas for user links and Q/V-band antennas for feeder links, which are crucial components to cope with VHTS mission requirements.”