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O3b mPOWER: CONNECTIVITY

SOLUTIONS FOR ISR MISSIONS


THE ISR DATA CHALLENGE
“Empowering [airmen] with
next-generation technologies to Multi-sensor airborne platforms, both manned and unmanned, are vital to today’s
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions, accomplishing a wide range
repurpose, retool, and automate
of operational objectives ideally in a single sortie. With sensors ranging from SIGINT
is crucial to evolving our and 4K video, to radar, thermal imaging, and WAMI, ISR assets gather a massive range
capabilities and our culture.” and volume of data on each flight. The capabilities of the comms systems supporting
these missions are constantly challenged to meet the growing demands of modern
ISR platforms, including:
Mark Allen, advisor to the Deputy
Chief of Staff for ISR, US Air Force • Reducing the number of passes per sortie with complex onboard sensors—drives
2018 the need for high-throughput return-link data streams
• Maintaining quick pilot reaction times and providing real-time cloud data analysis
throughout the intelligence chain—calls for a low end-to-end latency network
• Staying in contact during dynamic long-range missions—requires superior coverage
• Throughputs per UAV are expected • Preventing jamming and data interception—entails ensuring that the network is
to exceed 100Mbps by 2025 robust and secure

• There are set to be a further 5,000 Yet these prerequisites are beyond the reach of many of the traditional commercial
ISR UAVs in operation globally by 2028 satellite architectures, driving the requirement for new breeds of services and
systems.
• At least 95 countries now maintain
active military drone programmes
THE O3b mPOWER SOLUTION
O3b mPOWER represents a transformative opportunity for the ISR community. As an
exponential evolution of our well-established O3b MEO satcom service, O3b mPOWER
uses innovative satellite and terminal technologies to deliver secure beam-tracking
network connections to remote command and analysis centres. Fibre-like data rates
and reduced latency, together with the flexible allocation of forward and return
link data ratios, provide a high-performance cornerstone for enhanced intelligence
capabilities and vastly improved mission success rates.
KEY BENEFITS SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
• Low-latency, high-throughput MEO connectivity supports • Return Link throughputs of over 100Mbps with small
real-time data distribution from multi-sensor airborne missions airborne terminals
• Combination of narrow beams, multiple ground stations, beam • Frequency allocations across 2.5GHz of Ka spectrum
following, and changeable frequencies ensures supreme levels • Return link latency 150ms terminal to terminal
of network security and resilience • 250km beam diameter with obfuscation capabilities
• ISR data multi-cast directly from the satellite to numerous • Thousands of secure steerable beams per satellite
data processing and command centres significantly shortens • Dynamic control of frequency, bandwidth, and terminal
decision making and OODA-Loop time location
• Sovereign deployable Government gateways augment commercial • Global equatorial coverage to +/- 50° latitude, broader
gateways for security and QRC mission direct cloud access roaming capabilities with GEO
• Complementary multi-orbit GEO HTS system provides added • Secure portal access for service visibility and operational
resilience and roaming coverage configuration management
• Future facing open-architecture interface maintains compatibility
with current and planned small UAV terminals
• Scalable network topologies allow for system growth and
changes in architecture

O3b mPOWER Solutions for ISR Missions

External sources
Euroconsult and Avascent 2020

The Drone Databook, Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College 2019

Learn more about SES Networks’ full portfolio of services and solutions.
Website: ses.com/networks
Copyright © 2018 SES Networks. All specifications subject to change without notice

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