Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc.(KTOS), National Security Solutions provider, announced Sunday that its SAT Corporation subsidiary has received a multi-million dollar order to provide satellite interference detection and quality of service monitoring. The contract, awarded by one of the industry's largest companies, includes SAT's satellite monitoring product, Monics.
Monics is an enterprise networked advanced spectrum measurement and interference analysis system used by the majority of satellite operators and telecommunications providers around the world. Monics also provides advanced interference detection and analysis capabilities.
The company stated that the Monics implementation will combine hardware and software components to provide monitoring for satellite uplink and downlink performance. Monics' native scalability and flexibility enable a fully distributed, autonomous system for monitoring payload traffic and RF interference, including co-channel interference.Over the next three years, Monics will be installed in numerous locations around the globe. These locations will provide worldwide payload monitoring and interference detection to protect mission critical satellite bandwidth and supply real-time satellite payload situational awareness.
In a separate press release, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that its Kratos Integral Systems International or Kratos ISI business unit has been awarded a contract by Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd.or AsiaSat to provide Command & Control systems for the AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 satellite programs.
AsiaSat will expand its use of Kratos ISI's EPOCHTM Integrated Product Suite or IPS Fleet Management System to support the AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 satellite programs. AsiaSat 6 will have 28 high-power C-band transponders, and AsiaSat 8 will have 24 Ku-band transponders and a Ka-band beam. The high-power transponders on the satellites will enable the use of small antennas on the ground. The two Space Systems/Loral 1300 satellites are currently under construction and scheduled for launch in the first half of 2014.
EPOCH IPS is used to support more than 50 Space Systems/Loral 1300 satellites around the globe, far more than any other Command & Control system in the world. The contract expands the number of AsiaSat satellites managed by EPOCH IPS to seven, including satellites supplied by three different manufacturers, demonstrating the flexibility and ease of use of EPOCH IPS to manage satellite fleets no matter the configuration or size.
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