GROW SPACE to New Satellite Communications Operations Center
maximizes capabilities of Wideband Global SATCOM Satellites by Derald Franklin
T
he new Wideband Satellite Communications (SATCOM) Operations Center (WSOC) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-
Hickam, Wahiawa, HI, is the first of a new generation of satellite control facilities, with much-needed space for expanding mis- sions and the modern wideband control systems required to fully use the expanded capacity of the military’s new Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites.
WGS IN ORBIT
The new WSOC has visibility to more Pacific region satellites, including the military’s new WGS satellites, one of which is shown here. “This enables the best support and coverage for PACOM [U.S. Pacific Command] theater wideband satellite communications requirements,” said LTG Richard P. Formica, Commanding General, USASMDC/ARSTRAT, who added that the Wahiawa WSOC is the designated test facility for payload control validation for future WGS launches. (Illustration by Mark Wall.)
“We replaced the 1980s-era satellite control capability that we had at Camp Roberts, CA, with this state-of-the-art $25.3 million facility here at Wahiawa,” said LTG Richard P. Formica, Command- ing General, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strate- gic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT). The team at Wahiawa will manage the satellite payloads and “provide critical communications, navigation, and other
space-based capabilities to our warfight- ers,” Formica said.
“Inside this center, and within the WSOCs around the world, dedicated Soldiers, civilians, and contractors will coordi- nate and control the vast majority—in fact, virtually all—of the military’s wide- band SATCOM capacity that is used to support U.S. combat forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, our fleet forces afloat, and
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