Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)

Abstract

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is a narrowband Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) system that supports a worldwide, multi-Service population of mobile and fixed-site terminal users in the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band, providing increased communications capabilities to smaller terminal users while still supporting interoperability to legacy terminals. MUOS adapts a commercial third generation Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) cellular phone network architecture and combines it with geosynchronous satellites (in place of cell towers) to provide a new and more capable UHF MILSATCOM system. The constellation of four operational satellites and ground network control will provide greater than ten times the system capacity of the current UHF Follow-On (UFO) constellation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1019522

Entities

People

  • Joseph Kan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Contracts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Defense
  • End Items
  • Engineering
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Ground Stations
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Systems
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Procurement
  • Mobile Phones
  • Multiple Access
  • Satellite Communications
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites